The Mountain Exhales: Thirty Years of Panagbenga

The Mountain Exhales: Thirty Years of Panagbenga

by Andrelyn B. Gayudan, Maybeline F. Nacis, and Ruther Ray C. Ruado When the calendar turns its page to February, Baguio City exhales, and the world holds its breath. The “City of Pines” sheds its emerald solitude, trading its heavy green mantle for a vibrant, shifting mosaic of colors. It is as if the mountain itself has decided to bloom all at once, a kaleidoscope of petals erupting in a silent, fragrant explosion. The air sharpens into a silk…