Poster mother and child for the first Sunday of Advent 2013

Photo by Rolly Fernandez

Pink with pleasure

She enjoys car rides so guess who came along for the trip to a flower farm? Kai, the Green Valley mascot herself, coincidentally dressed in the colors of hydrangeas about to turn pink and shod in her well-worn rubber shoes.

More than a week ago, I was still breathing mountain air. Since I returned to Metro Manila, I've been trying to avert another onset of a cold. Apart from mega doses of Vitamin C, I've added mangosteen and sambong supplements to my pre-breakfast ritual of downing staying-alive capsules.

But sometimes just gazing at family pics puts the pep back in my workaday existence. These shots I took from a visit to a flower farm.

Rolly was striding down too fast, determined as usual to get to our destination. I called out his name. He turned back. I told him earlier I wanted to do a story on the flower farm, on poinsettias in particular, because they are real signs of Christmas in the highlands. Plus I wanted to find myself in a sea of red blossoms. Wasn't it Audrey Hepburn who said, "If I get married, I want to be very married"?