The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I don’t know if there will ever come a time when I can catch a glimpse of Taal Volcano without feeling the itch to gaze in awe and amazement. This isn’t even a particularly good photo of the lake, it was almost sunset when I took it, but Taal still looks grand anyway. The smallest volcano in the world, yet still imposing despite its size.
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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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Magnificent! Great shot!
I started using large photos again kasi details like those flowers and fish pens won’t make much of a statement if the photos are small.