It seems the end of tag-araw (days of sun) and the beginning of tag-ulan (days of rain). It was a short summer for us all, what with climate change.
But in the places I've lived in the past 14 years, Dumaguete City and Davao City, the usual tag-araw and tag-ulan seasons in the Philippines didn't really seem to apply. Perhaps because both aren't in the usual typhoon path. So when it's hurricane season in the rest of the country, Dumaguete and Davao doesn't seem to share the same weather.
In a way, both places have their own weather patterns. Dumaguete and Davao both have hot sunny days and balmy evenings, with the occasional rain, during the tag-araw. And during tag-ulan, it's humid cloudy days and the sudden downpour in the late afternoon and evening for both Dumaguete and Davao.
Just like that view outside my bedroom window.
Just when I said the monsoon season is upon us, the sun decides to shine the whole day today. Cloudless blue skies, too. But then, TV news confirmed my weather forecast. A storm brewing just outside of Philippine waters will usher in the monsoon.
Found this photo I took one night walking tipsy to the entrance of Matina Town Square to get a taxi home. The extreme biker adorns the entrance to an extreme sports shop. Kinda cool, right. Here's another view. ;-)
This is a photo of the campfire site at Eden Nature Park. We had a bonfire the night before this picture was taken. The following day I went back to the site for a nap, as I knew the trees around it would provide some shade from the sun.
This one was along Quimpo Boulevard, right after Almendras Gym and the mosque. Among the pedestrian overpasses in this city, this is one that people actually use. Perhaps because it's near the Land Transportation Office, so there's bound to be a traffic policeman around.
That's a mosque with the muezzin's tower right there in center and upper right of the picture. I took this photo with my camera phone while on a jeepney. Lucky for me the traffic light flashed red and so the jeepney had to stop. I would have wanted to be on that taxi there, and get a better view. This was along Quimpo Boulevard, near the Almendras Gym.
This is part of the old downtown area in Davao City. The street is now named C. M. Recto, after a Commonwealth era stateman; it used to be called Magallanes, after Ferdinand Magellan.
