TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Garden Pictures from the Philippines and Vietnam

Monday, February 21, 2011

Garden Pictures from the Philippines and Vietnam

Top to bottom:
Ruins, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Lotus flowers, near Mekong Delta,Vietnam
On the way to the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Bonzai taken in Park in Saigon, Vietnam
Couple posing during Tet, Park in Saigon, Vietnam
Dragon Fruit plant, Park in Saigon, Vietnam
Tet Altar, Saigon, Vietnam
Dragon plant, Saigon, Vietnam
Garden, Buddhist Temple, Dalat, Vietnam
Garden, Buddhist Temple, Dalat, Vietnam
Rose Garden, Dalat, Vietnam
Montagnard Coffee Farm, Dalat, Vietnam
The Crazy House, Dalat, Vietnam
Antonio's Restaurant, Tagaytay, Philippines
Sonya's Garden. Tagaytay, Philippines

Read also
From Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City
Chapter from Magdalena, - Winning Hearts and Mind
Chapter from Magdalena - Talking About the Woman in Cholon

This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.