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Saturday, March 08, 2008

PhotoHunt: Different

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I snapped this shot two years ago when we were passing through the town of Dulag, in the province of Leyte, some 800-or-so kilometers southeast of the Philippine capital Manila. I saw one of these curious structures on the side of the road in front the house of the town mayor who invited us to stopover for breakfast in his home. I was too sleepy and hungry to inquire about their nature and purpose...

I think I saw several of them, at certain intervals, along the town's main thoroughfare. Each structure is about eight or nine feet tall, with a smooth unpainted finish. Upclose, a wooden pole skewers the "palm" and "fingers" portion of the structure. I surmise that it is a different form of either town or street name marker or a place to put up town announcements.

What do you think?

(I'm having loads of trouble wading through Blogger lately hence the weirdly sized photo on this entry.)

Update 3/11/2008:

I've just shifted to using Firefox as my browser. Blogger apparently works better with it. I managed to edit posts and photos using Firefox hence the erstwhile weirdly sized photo is now back to, um, normal.

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9 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very interesting. Did you ever see them holding up any signs or postings? Good choice for different.

Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:16:00 PM  
Blogger jmb said...

This is a great photo. What a strange looking thing. It's really rather ugly. Blogger is horrible tonight with error messages everywhere.

Saturday, March 08, 2008 4:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

not very impressive structure but intriguing.

Saturday, March 08, 2008 5:28:00 PM  
Blogger ian said...

strange... intriguing... different... words that can very well be applied to my rather benign post and Blogger's behavior as of late...

*bearing it while grinning, me*

Saturday, March 08, 2008 6:56:00 PM  
Blogger Hootin Anni said...

Indeed....this is totally different. For me in the USA, the whole photo is of different culture too.

My Photo Hunt Different is shared, I hope, if you haven't already, you can drop by and pay a visit. Happy weekend.

Saturday, March 08, 2008 7:30:00 PM  
Blogger Sarge Charlie said...

I must agree, that is different

Saturday, March 08, 2008 9:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its cool and very different not see anything like that.

Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:13:00 AM  
Blogger SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yes, quite a mystery you got here. Let's wait till on of the Philippine's bloggers comes by.

Have a great week.

Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Missed this yesterday, I was having such trouble with Blogger!

It's an amazing photo, great! And very certainly different. I hope someone will come up with the answer :)

Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:52:00 PM  

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