Finally we have rain, along with two rainbows 🌈
Photographs
This Praying Mantis was there to greet us when we returned home yesterday.
Photographs from Estremoz Saturday Market
Friday, October 27, 2023
Some more images from last week’s visit to Estremoz Saturday market.
The fisherman returning home, or maybe he is on his way to the fishing grounds?
Walking around the market in Estremoz yesterday.
A Pilgrimage to Nazaré
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Today I made a pilgrimage to Nazaré, the home in Portugal of big wave surfing, and where the biggest wave ever to be surfed was surfed. Even though I don’t surf, I am surrounded by family and friends who do. I live on Maui where surfers from all over the world come to practice their sport, and just down the road from us is Jaws, the home in Hawaii of big wave surfing.
Next stop America. The view yesterday from Europe’s most westerly point, Cabo da Roca in Portugal.
Another Micro Meetup in Portugal with @maique, along with my wife, Melissa.
Waiting for a meet up.
Alcácer do Sal by night.
We went out to Arrábida Natural Park yesterday, and what a beautiful park it is. While walking along Praia do Creiro, one of the handful of beaches in the park, I saw a huge jellyfish and washed up at the shoreline. Its body was as large as a head. I’ve never seen one so large. I didn’t have a camera with me while on the walk, and so no picture, though I did capture some from the upper reaches of the park.
Captures from a walk through Alcácer do Sal this morning.
With the temperature in the low 30s, and cloudless skies, this character was overdressed yesterday.
Day 30 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Treasure, suggested by @agilelisa
From an art exhibition in Florida in 2018.
Day 29 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Contrast, suggested by @gregmoore
Light and dark.
Thursday, September 28, 2023 →
Day 28 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Workout, suggested by @rom
Always worth it, but quite a workout. Haleakala crater.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 →
Day 27 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Embrace, suggested by @mroutley
Returning to the UK, I always feel the embrace of the British landscape.
Day 26 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Belt, suggested by @annie
Taken in a small restaurant/bar in Kyoto in October 2016. A few beverages in view.
Day 25 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Flare, suggested by @matt17r
Autumnal light.
Day 24 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Belt, suggested by @allaboutgeorge
The only belt that I brought with me on this trip. Better than the last one though, when I forgot to bring one at all. Then there was a lot of hitching up of my trousers until I bought a belt.
Saturday, September 23, 2023 →
Day 23 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: A Day in the Life
Out walking in Bristol, England today.
Saturday, September 23, 2023 →
I took this photo this morning while having breakfast and have only just looked at it. It’s a striking sunrise, even if I say so myself, with the cloud formations as well. Bristol, England.
Day 22 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Road, suggested by @jomalo
An old road maybe, running through the fields above the cliffs near to Ho’okipa, Maui
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 →
Day 21 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Fall, suggested by @pcora
A Horse Chestnut leaves start to change colour as Fall approaches. Bristol, England.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 →
Day 20 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Disruption, suggested by me, @crossingthethreshold
I had no idea what I would post when I suggested this subject for a photo, but settled for snow in Portland from when we lived there in 2013.
Day 19 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Edge, suggested by @rnv
Two edges. The horizon and the west coast of the United States last night, just south of San Francisco.
Day 18 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Fabric, suggested by @adam
Rolls of indigo fabric. Chikugo, Japan.
Day 17 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: intense, suggested by @rori
The noise from these mechanical looms was intense, as in loud. They were weaving indigo cloth. Hirokawa, Japan.
Saturday, September 16, 2023 →
Day 16 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: oof!, suggested by @bkryer
Being held up by the strong winds on the Isle of Skye.
Day 15 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Red, suggested by @chiawase
A red bicycle in Florence, Italy.
