DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Cebu City

Photograph of Fuente Osmeña Cir in Cebu City, Philippines.
Photograph of Oriente Building on Colon St. of Cebu City, Philippines.
Photograph of the Cebu Provincial Capital (Kapitolyo sa Sugbo) in Cebu City, Philippines.

FIVE WISE LINES [June 2026]

Photograph of sunset taken at Moalboal, Philippines across the Tanon Strait.

When I was younger I could remember anything,
whether it had happened or not;
but my faculties are decaying now and soon
I shall be able to remember only the things
that never happened.

Mark twain

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch [paraphrased]

Judge a man by his questions
rather than his answers.

Voltaire

Resist much, obey little.

Walt whitman; “To the states

People don’t take trips —
trips take people.

John steinbeck

DAILY PHOTO: Purple & Yellow

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Photograph of a purple petaled flower taken in the Singapore Changi Airport.

DAILY PHOTO: Danube Bank, Bratislava

Photograph of the riverwalk and docked boats on the Danube River taken from the Most SNP bridge in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Photograph of a large river cruise ship on the Danube River in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Photograph of the Danube bank with the Bratislava Castle (Bratislavský hrad) above.

DAILY PHOTO: Yellow River Park

DAILY PHOTO: Amarin Plaza Phra Phrom Shrine, Bangkok

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Photograph of a Phra Phrom (Brahma) shrine in the Ratchaprasong area of  Bangkok, Thailand.
Amarin Plaza shrine near Chit Lom Metro Station in Bangkok, Thailand.

PROMPT: Unlimited Budget

Daily writing prompt
If you had an unlimited budget for 24 hours, what would you do?

I’d buy a round-trip ticket for a place distant and interesting. I’m presuming I could spend money on that day for something the benefit of which would come later (i.e. that nothing turns into pumpkin at the end of the day.) I would not want the inevitable cavity search that would come from buying and flying on the same day.

DAILY PHOTO: Ferrys on the Perfume River

Photograph of a docked river ferry on Hue's Perfume River.
Photograph showing two ornate ferries on the Perfume River as it runs through Huế, Vietnam.

DAILY PHOTO: Zambezi River Afternoon

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Photograph of the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe as the sun is getting low.

DAILY PHOTO: Angry Adolescent Tusker

Photograph of an aggressive adolescent elephant in Botswana's Chobe National Park.
Photograph of a posturing young tusker near the Chobe River's edge in Botswana.