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The Blue Stream
"He wonders if ever the stream reaches the sea.That's too far out from here, he thought." avrPainting and Verse by Dr Abe V Rotor Blue Stream in acrylic, AVR c 1990A painting is never finished, I must...
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Einstein, the Physicist and Violinist
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?" Einstein Dr Abe V RotorThe Violinist Albert Einstein is rarely given as much attention and as the physicist...
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Idyllic Life on the Countryside
Mural and Verse by Dr Abe V RotorPaaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio738 DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday Idyllic Life on the Countryside mural (5 ft x 12 ft) by AV...
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Images on a Wall Mural
Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell them the fairest who love Nature to the full.Dr Abe V RotorA pose as fresh as a stream flowingdown the mountain laughing, singing,weaned from the shed, its...
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Can we defy aging?
Dr Abe V Rotor Right, Manang Mila, ambulant veggie vendor 75; Cecille, author's wife 63.Definitely no. But we can delay it. We can grow old gracefully. And actively. Like Milagros Pineda Patayan. She...
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Coral Reef Murals EndangeredBehold the hand that makes, and Lo! The hand that ruins, or beauty sliding away from it... Mural painting and Poem by Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature School on BlogFar from...
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Develop your NATIVE INTELLIGENCE. Here is a checklist for self-evaluation.
Dr Abe V Rotor Living with Nature - School on Blog Native Intelligence list1. Animals are uneasy before an earthquake. They can sense the preliminary vibration before the final snap (tectonic break).2....
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20 Philosophies of Ageing Gracefully .
Only good wine becomes mellow with age. Old age is the time you harvest what you planted in youth. The man is the child of yesterday - but the child in you must always live on.Dr Abe V RotorLiving with...
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Practical Hydroponics: A Kitchen Garden
Dr Abe V RotorThree-week old kitchen gardenYou can grow kamote or sweet potato tops in the kitchen. It also serves as a greenery of sort on the window sill.Fill to three-fourth a convenient glass jar...
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"Dirty ice cream" - the tastiest ice cream in the world
Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature School on BlogMang Tomas' ice cream is patronized by the UST community. Dirty ice cream - but why the clamor, the demand?Capitalism's war on tradition, triumph of...
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Tunnel Windows to Heaven
Dr Abe V RotorDaybreak, I ask what lies beyond the wall, and a whispercame through, what goes in there.And the viewI see is the same though,yet a vine across the windowis calling, hello!Walls, walls,...
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Let's control the fruit fly: cosmopolitan pest of fruits and vegetables
Dr Abe V RotorFruit fly (Dacus dorsalis (Family Tephritidae, Order Diptera) on banana and mabolo. Note the nature of damage, and size of the mature insect. Old folks used to tell us kids in our time...
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Energy from Plants
Dr Abe V RotorLiving with Nature - School on Blog Stick plant (Euphorbia tirucali). Extract is processed into diesel fuel and oil, UST Hanga, ripe berries burn bright yellow, DENR Loakan,...
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Ethnobotany: Reviving the Natural Relationship of Man and Plants
Superstitious beliefs and ethnobotany are closely associated. On closer examination such beliefs have greatly enhanced the relationship of man and the unseen that shapes his life, drawing from it a...
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My Road
Dr Abe V RotorOn-the-spot painting, acrylic by AVR. Sacred Heat Novitiate, Novaliches, QCA paint brush in hand, a canvas at my face,I begin my road from where I am and born,and walk tall as the sun...
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Humanities: A Hut by a Pond on Mt Pulag
Dr Abe V RotorHut by a Pond. On-the-spot painting on Mt Pulag, Benguet by AVR (1985) inspired by Henry David Thoreau, 18th century American philosopher who left town and lived alone in a forest...
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Humanities: Dying Waterfall
Dr Abe V RotorDying Waterfall in acrylic, AVRHe is old nowand the cataract is but a spring.He touches the spring.Where have all the waters gone?Yes, he sighs with relief,his gaze takes him far away;And...
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Rice Terraces Mural at the Grains Museum
Of the Eight Wonders of the Ancient World, only the Banaue Rice Terraces and the Pyramids of Egypt exist today. Mural by Dr Abe V Rotor Ifugao Rice Terraces wall mural (10ft x 11ft) in acrylic at the...
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Philippine Grains Industry Dioramas at NFA Grains Museum (Article in Progress)
Masagana 99Banaue Rice Terraces Encomienda System Yakan Rice Culture Harvest Time Margate System of Rice Planting
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Radiation is an invisible deadly pollution of our postmodern era.
It is the man-made or man-induced kind of radiation spawned by the splitting of the atom on one hand and the invention of the microchip on the other, that jointly and collectively with the...
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