annFabulous' Life

Dates Palm Tree is everywhere in the Middle East and most of it are bearing it's fruits during this time of the year. . This fruit is yummy, so sweet that it blends well with a tea, a natural sweetener. According to my Arab friends, dates is rich in iron so it's good for pregnant women. This fruit is so versatile that Arabs made some ways to make it more appealing to eat; when ripe, it is use as a filling in breads or cookies. It can also be eaten fresh from the tree, when dried it becomes juicy and crunchy, it is also preserved and sprinkled with some sesame seeds . (See More on Wikipedia if you wish to: (Phoenix dactylifera) ). I was lucky to find a not so tall Dates Palm Tree but with only 3 fruits left in its twig. And I found a heart shape at this angle. A different look at the side But I love most of all is the heart shape ..♥♥♥.. This photo was taken over the weekend during our outdoor fellowship with my Nikon D5000 using a Marumi DHG Anchromat Macro-200(+5)

*Farmer will be my son's name in the web* T his should have been posted earlier but for some reasons I wasn't able to do so. Anyway, last week, Farmer had his haircut... and yes without crying,running and wrestling. Farmer's last haircut sessions was really not a good experience. The first time we went to a barber shop which was in SM City Taytay, he ran and cried, we were like Tom and Jerry chasing each other. I thought of an alternative by having a home service but it was still the same old story. I have to let him sit on my lap and wrap my arms around him and lock his arms. He is wrestling with me trying to escape so strong that he kicked the lady hair cutter. And that is the reason why he had a long hair for a long time. But last week was a different story. Hubby and I brought our kids in Dahran Mall because my sister-in-law told us that there is a good Kabayan (fellow Filipino) hair cutter in one of the Kids Salon there. We first let Farmer walk by himself and run any

The theme for Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday is about a movie title.We will be sharing photo that depicts the title of our chosen movie.  This is kinda hard for me since we don't have a movie house or a theatre here in the Middle East, and I tell you it's been a decade since I last went to a movie house . And the urge for me to watch movies just suddenly disappeared. I get bored easily :). But then my daughter have a lot of DVD cartoons and movies, watching is a life for a seven year old girl. With that I am able to glimpse on the movies she is watching. But when she find one movie that really entertained her, she will watch it over and over for a week that makes me wanna puke (lol). But there's one movie that she watched that I find interesting. This was "Bridge To Terabithia", a rousing fantasy adventure movie about family, friendship, and the wondrous power of imagination-check out the movie review in ROTTEN TOMATOES if you wish to. The Recipe For Thi

Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday Challenge T his is my first time to join here and I’m so excited to share mine . Today's theme is :“It’s The Little Things”. I have here a photo of some flowers which I don’t know what their names are. I took a shot of them during my vacation in the Philippines while on our way to the mountainous Dinggalan, Aurora.     And I think I can call them “wildflowers” since I spotted them on the roadside.    SOOC So what are the little things? I know that  we don’t have the same perception about “what are the little things “ but to me I thought of the FLOWERS as the little things that make a difference during a funeral or even in a hospital visit when a loved-one is sick.  Flowers can also say “I Love You” or “I am sorry”,  “Congratulations”  and the likes.   They are  little things  that God created and yet makes a difference whenever you behold one. The recipe for this textured photos: First I cropped the photo to 8x8, made two layer