The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
It rained while I was cooking pasta for lunch. Five minutes after the rain stops is always the perfect time to take photos of the flowers in the garden. 
If you want to see the ants up close, click the links to pages 2 and 3.
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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.
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What happened with the pasta while you took those pictures?
What are those ants doing in the flower? Nectar lovers?
The pasta didn’t burn hahahaha
The flowers in that particular plant… there are ants there rain or shine.