A calm River Sado hosts a flock of young seagulls on a Sunday morning.
Photographs
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A reading nook.
Capela de Arraiolos.
The weather was so grey this evening at sunset, that it almost looked as though it had been snowing over Alcácer. While cooler than yesterday, snow though was very definitely not in the air.
Pedro Nunes looking out over his Square in his birth place of Alcácer do Sal.
(Some of) the colours of Alcácer’s bridge by night.
The first rays of sunlight striking this morning.
The clean up, stage two. I noticed as the washing machines started turning, that another level of stress felt released from my body. Finally being able to clean the mop up towels.
Early dawn light this morning.
Caught in conversation.
Peppers for sale in Mercardo do Livramento, Setúbal.
Always worth a visit, though warmer days than today are better recommended. This was taken over the weekend.
Well we arrived in Alcácer do Sal late at night yesterday, and it turned out to be the last day of a weekend festival. Alcácer does festivals well.
Cars crawled to the venue, also on the route to our house.
The festival is the Feira Nova De Outubro 2024. I am not clear what it was celebrating, but there were markets, food stalls a plenty and music. Even well into the third and final night of the festival, it was busy.
What a difference a few thousand feet make. These photos were taken six days ago as we approached London Heathrow. The first was taken up above the clouds as the first light of dawn made an appearance.
As the plane descended into Heathrow we dropped into the cloud beneath us, and we stayed in it. The land did not come into view until a few hundred feet from touch down. It was pea soup fog until landing, and we arrived to a murky rainy day.
Thankfully the weather had brightened up since….though next week does not look so hopeful.
Sunrise over Bristol a couple of days ago.
I spotted this character just down the road from my mother’s apartment.
Thursday, September 26, 2024 →
I made mention that in an earlier post of the Pacific Golden Plover, or kōlea, which visits Hawaii for the winter. This morning I tried to capture some photos of a Plover feeding in our front garden. They are fairly tame, and there is still a limit as to how close that I can get to them. There is also a limit to the resolution of my iPhone 13 Mini zooming in. But here is an effort to share a visiting Plover with you.
Thursday, September 26, 2024 →
A crescent, waning moon high in the sky at dawn this morning as I stepped outside.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
Hello Kitty - I felt as though I was being followed today.
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
A self seeding fern growing out of fence post.
There is still a week and a half to go before September ends, and this is the site that greeted me when I walk into Lowe’s this afternoon. One of those big figures was singing Christmas songs. Meanwhile outside the sun beat down with late summer heat.
Words escape me.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 →
Watching my grandson playing football (soccer) last Saturday morning. His team won 3 - 1. I was sitting to the left where there are a crowd of people on the touchline, but the sun was brutally hot and I had to take shelter under the shade of a tree. Those tent structures were all accounted for!
Another game this Saturday.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 →
Homemade egg pasta drying.
This evening’s rainbow with a Plumeria tree in the foreground (and experimenting with Halide app’s Process Zero). 🌈
Spotted while out walking just off the shore line, at the end of last week. Someone or some people had been cleaning up debris that had washed ashore.
Seeing the work of these good people reminded me of a quote that went something like this,
You can’t throw things away. You can only put them where you can’t see them anymore.
Picked from under the tree and ready for a quick lunchtime snack.
And then there is this evening’s rainbow, two if you look close. Two minutes later it started raining and the rainbow was gone 🌈
