Jumulon Butterfly museum

Like I told you if its a "ber"  month its Christmas. So Last week at church (still the month of September) they sang a Christmas song in church for the opening hymn.The area where they sale stars on the way up to Bogo now also have Christmas trees for sale.

It is still warm if the sun shines all day. On the way to work I can determine how hot it is outside by how the people are dressed. If they are shirtless, have an umbrella up, have half their t shirt tucked up or are wearing a towel it is going to be a hot day. We still have hot days but also stormy days where it is cooler though still hot.

This cemetery  looks out over the ocean is and is very picturesque. Not all cemeteries are. The one in Bogo is unique in that you can see peoples bones in buckets on the ground. They rent the burial lot for a couple of years and then the bones are removed and placed in a bucket so the next person can be buried. I will have to get a picture of it for you, being as how Halloween is coming up.

Fiesta's are ongoing. But you are probably tired of seeing my Fiesta posters.

This is a pretty Catholic rock church that we see every Sunday on our Drive up the mountain. No one is ever there when we drive by. Maybe it is used only for special occasions.

Shade for the cocks. There is a place up the road that just sticks palms in the ground to protect his cocks from the heat. One of our neighbors has a cock in his yard with a shade cover.

We went to another butterfly museum. Jumulon Butterfly Museum. The man who showed 

us around was very interesting and sure new a lot about butterflies. He had taught English 

literature and drama in a college before he retired. He was a family friend of the Jumulon's and 

had been studying butterflies since he was 12 years old. Even the men in the group were interested.

 It is an open sanctuary and so the butterflies can come and go. The only thing that draws them back is the nectar from the plants that have been planted. They have over 50 varieties of butterflies collected from all over the world. The owner who has since died was very famous throughout the world for his collections and research. He has butterflies named after him. He was also an artist and used oils and the damaged wings of butterflies as his medium.

Beautiful flowers in the garden

Orchids were in bloom. They also have a plant that only comes out every five years
 and are hoping this is the year it will bloom but they don't remember
 where in the garden it was planted

Showing us the parts of a butterfly

Similar to the Monarch that is in the states

Butterflies that Mr.Jumulon  discovered and are named after him

These butterflies are interesting because when they close up
they look like the leaves on a tree.

This picture shows that butterflies have patterns and someone was able to find the
alphabet and numbers in the pattern's of the different wings of butterflies

There were several displays of butterflies used for stamps

                                                 

The art work on the bottom is one of my favorites. It shows the oldest street in the Philippines. Colon St, The street is right near the museum. There really isn't anything to see there except a marker. The horse and buggy used to be the form of public transport. You can still see the horse and buggy occasionally. I saw two that day but wasn't in a position to get a picture.

Colon street bottom center. It is made of butterfly wings.
 There is also one made from oils and it was interesting to compare the differences.

This is my favorite. It represents chief Lapu-Lapu who killed Magellan.
 It is made of butterfly wings. If you look at the picture at an angle you can see
the iridescent colors of  the wings.

Philippine dart guns and spears.
Part of the collection of Mr. Jumulon

We had a good day with friends. 

After our museum visit we went out to eat at a Spanish 

restaurant that had a Filipino flare to the food.