This morning started with this sunrise and a calm sea at low tide between us and the diving island Apo in Dauin, Negros Oriental.

One of the monstrous jeepneys on the Dumaguete – Zamboanguita route turns around on the highway.

On our morning walk, the end point as we walk towards Zamboanguita is at this house. The owner has embellished his gate with plants planted on discarded rice cookers.

Gerlinda has spotted hanging flowers and the owner is not far away either. In the end, we make our way back with two hanging flower pots made from recycled plastic bottles as our booty.

After breakfast, we will pay a visit to the Malatapay Market in Zamboanguita, as it was screwed up last Wednesday by the low-pressure system that passed through.

It’s Sunday and today, for once, no morning walk. Instead, we had an early breakfast.

As an amusement, the neighbour and his bull did an interlude with a bath in the sea for us, during which I left my breakfast and ran outside with my camera.

Then a few pictures of where Gerlinda left her mark in the garden area through fruit trees, plants and flowers.

The cat is out of the house and the mice are dancing in the garden.

Jenny and Gary are now on holiday in Vietnam and enjoying good food and some cold beers there.

Gerlinda hasn’t been lazy in the meantime either and has bought cuttings of flowers, plants and fruit trees.

Then we went into town today and bought pots and some gardening tools, while I used the time to do some filming at the public market in Dumaguete.

Here are a few impressions of Gerlinda behind the house doing her favourite thing.

Today we are with Gerlinda behind the house. This is her place where she works with the flowers and plants. That means mixing potting soil, preparing and planting it. This is also where the cuttings from the mother plants are grown for propagation.

Today we are in Gerlinda’s flower garden in front of the house and organising new plants.

01) This is the side at the new entrance where it goes down to the garden and the former pigsties. There is still plenty of room there to expand the flower garden.

02) A simple flower on one of the shrubs.

03) One of the many colourful leafy plants, which come in many different patterns and colour combinations.

04) Gerlinda looking for new flowers, plants and cuttings by the roadside, where other people look for their firewood.

05) Gerlinda with her day’s haul on the way home on the mountain road near us in Malasag.