Little town between mountains

Straight to the sky

Feline Calm

Celebrate

Celebrate life everyday with fireworks!

The Mountain and I

"The birds have vanished from the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains."
(Li Po, The Poetry of Zen)

Along the shade

Along the trail's edge
beside a sparkling river
in the willow shade,
I lingered to take a nap-
lingered, and I'm still here.

Fuzzy

Did you ever see you path this way? You know it's there, but you can quite tell what's at the end...

 

Nostalgia

You know something must be wrong, when the only thing keeping you from going crazy is a little café, and a Pastél de Nata. Maybe I'm in the right place... After all [even when I miss my cantinho no céu] I know there are always things "para matar a saudade"... The blogs, keep me up-to-date... the flavors keep me from forgeting. And sometimes, when the rain falls outside, I can smell the scent of wet earth... And if someone cuts the grass outside, I smell the scent of the "lameiros"...

The heart

The heart, was broken.
The heart, thought it would mend,
Soon,
But didn't...
The heart, loved,
and lost...
The heart, can't bare anymore,
Sadness.
This heart, can't live without you.

Fly

Get high in blue

In the high skies,
I want to fly.
I want to see
The blue ocean underneath,
The blue skies above...
And all I have left,
The sun ahead of me!

Happy view

I don't need much to make me happy... A cup of coffee, a ball, flip flops, the sun, the never ending ocean, the sand... and a happy group of friends... it so simple...

Tic Toc

TIC TOC... TIC TOC... TIC... TOC... TI... TO... T... T... ... ...

The clock never stops... it might seem like it goes slower... but no, it never stops... never...

Light inside

Never let the light inside you die!

Smudged past

Sometimes, you look back, in the rear view mirror of your life, and everything looks foggy... It's as if rain has washed over it, and left smudges of ink all over your past...

Blue Bird

Fly away, little bird... Fly away...

Praying for happiness

I should probably pray... But I'm not even sure if anyone would hear... I just need the serenity of knowing that things will change... That happiness is possible, in an unhappy world.

Rio Tâmega

Numa tarde quente de verão, da vontade de entrar rio a dentro e mergulhar...

Look up

I look up,
I try to see your face...
The face I lost so long ago,
The face that once loved me.

I look up,
And realize
You're not there,
You left long ago.

I look up, now... but,
Maybe one day,
I'll stop looking up,
I'll stop searching for you.

Love

Love can be found in the little everyday things...

Straight line

 Life is a straight line, with a couple of obstacles in the way...

Growing in rocks

Luke 8: ⁵"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. ⁶Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. ⁷Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. ⁸Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown"

This photo was taken in the Sanctuary of St. Caetano, in Chaves, Portugal.  As you can see, plants are growing out of the rock...  I have hope that even if I throw my words to the hardest people, they might someday listen...

Flames

Life is like a candle that burns little by little, until finally its flame extinguishes...

Steps/ Passos

How many steps I have taken to reach the path I am in...




Quantos passos eu ja dei, para chegar a este caminho...

Flowers

Bright sky

There is now,
 The light of your eyes,
That brightens my sky. 
And the dream of being
Forever in your arms. 

Flowing to give life

The water of life, brings all the green nature life...

The lonely or remarkable

Don't feel all alone, in the middle of the green... Better think that you are the remarkable flower, that bursts out of the scene. 

I see the light

I don't want to stay in the darkness! I want to jump out into the light!

Open Road

There's nothing like an open road... and better yet, a place where to go...

Spring flowers

It's hard to walk by Spring flowers and not look in wonder...  Even if you suffer from Spring allergies, you must take a look at the beauty that they bring every year... at least once.  And if you really can't be near them, I leave you with these two photos I took this weekend.

Thoughts

 

Thoughts

As I sit here, 

Fiddling with my hair,

I think of you... 

Such a warm memory

Of a summer day, 

Without clouds, 

Without rain. 

Chaves

 Chaves

Cidade quente, nas

Horas de

Amar...

Vem, Paixão

Este é o nosso lugar

Sempre que eu sonhar.