Did you know that trees now how to paint ?

....they are the best with painting on calçada with their beautiful brenches, dark shades - when the Sun lets them to :-)

Jacarandá fiesta - Maio de 2008

I read on Wikipedia that Jacarandá trees are very popular in South Africa (Pretoria being called the Jacarandá City), also in Brisbane - Australia. I heard about the Jacarandá trees when I was little, when my father brought home some seeds from Zambia hoping that we will be able to plant and grow a beautiful purple tree - of course that was not possible and I think that the seeds are still somewhere in a drawer. I got to see the trees first on my first TAP flight to Portugal (in TAP's magazine) -when I was coming to an unknown land, now dear to me, and I fell in love with these trees when looking at a picture taken in June in Largo do Convento do Carmo. Then I got to see them for real last year and this year again, this year, even though a very rainy spring, Jacarandá trees couldn't wait until June and they decided to bloom earlier-which only made my photo expeditions harder to handle-between rain drops and wind, chasing for an unexistent Sun, carrying a backpack full of photo gear and walking for hours on end to capture the last glimpse of a Jacarandá tree in bloom. Beautiful as always. Enjoy the purple fiesta!

Expo 98, Trafaria, Convento do Carmo - 17 de Maio de 2008

EXPO 98





A caminho da Trafaria










A noite no Convento do Carmo

Cruise on Tejo - 29th of April 2008

Thanx to Indie Lisboa I got to spend two hours in a windy and cloudy day on Principe Perfeito - a nice sail ship. Looked for my house from the other side of the river, passed one more time behind the 25 de Abril bridge and prayed not to get a cold from the not so friendly weather. But who cared about the weather when seeing such a beautiful view-not me, for sure.