Lavender aerial orchids on a tree in Avilon Zoo.
The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Above, my favorite pheasant of all — the Lady Amherst’s pheasant looks like it is wearing a veil cascading from its head down to its chest. According to Wikipedia, it is named after Sarah Countess Amherst, wife of William Pitt Amherst, Governor General of Bengal, who was sent the first specimen of the bird to ... (more)
Wikipedia says that a flamingo with pale coloring usually means it is not healthy. At the same time, it does not seem to be uncommon for flamingos in captivity to appear pale not necessarily because they are unhealthy but because due of insufficient amounts of carotene in their diet. I’m not an expert in flamingos ... (more)
The peacock photos from yesterday’s trip to Avilon Zoo. It must be mating season — the peacock is preening and spreading its plumage in full splendor.





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.
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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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