April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 28: Community suggested by @stupendousman
Looking for that symbol? Sam Rose has created the website to find it. So useful.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 27: Surprise suggested by @Sdevore
We took a drive today out into the Alentejo countryside south and west of Alcácer do Sal. What with the time of year and the recent rains, the land was very green and the spring flowers were out in abundance. Once the summer sun arrives this land will become golden and parched.
Evening in Alentejo.
Listening to the night time concert.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 26: Critter suggested by @7robots
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 25: Spine suggested by @thedimpause
🥱 I woke up late this morning, for me. I went out late to listen to music and watch fireworks (after having already fallen asleep). It was a pleasure to see families out and about enjoying themselves. And the fireworks were good.
🥱 I woke up late this morning, for me. I went out late to listen to music and watch fireworks (after having already fallen asleep). It was a pleasure to see families out and about enjoying themselves. And the fireworks were good.
Just home from an evening walk along the Sado River. Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution here in Portugal. In Alcácer do Sal tonight Rui Veloso will be on stage beside the Sado at 10:00pm with fireworks at midnight…and then the party goes on until the early hours.
I don’t know how much I will manage to see tonight, but we were treated to a sound check by Rui on our walk. The first time that I have heard his music, and I liked it.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 24: Light suggested by @eumrz
I just watched The Elephant Whisperers on Netflix. I don’t know why it has taken me so long to get round to seeing this short documentary? Beautifully filmed - the scenery, the wildlife - and holding the simplicity and yet depth of the heartfelt human/animal interaction.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 23: Dreamy suggested by @maique
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 22: Blue suggested by @lzbth
Monday April 22, 2024 Newsletter letter
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Monday April 22, 2024 Olá Friends, This letter is coming to you from Portugal. I arrived here from England two days ago. I had a good time back home but as always found it hard to leave. Hard to leave the UK, hard to leave my mother, hard to leave familiar surroundings and places that hold memories…but life moves on and I had to get down to Portugal ahead of my wife’s arrival this coming week.
😶🌫️ I’m waking up to one of those misty mornings that I sense will transform into a beautiful sunny, and maybe hot day.
😶🌫️ I’m waking up to one of those misty mornings that I sense will transform into a beautiful sunny, and maybe hot day.
Mountains, Rain, and Pat Metheny
Sunday, April 21, 2024
I sit here in 2024 in a house in Portugal, and a piece of music transports me back to 1985, to a hiking hut somewhere in mountains of the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Almost forty years have passed, but the memory is vivid and the effect of that time on my life feels as real now as it did all the way back then. Let me give you some context.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 21: Mountain suggested by @dejus
