Sem título #368

The fluffy and soft MEOW

Coisas que não mudam #716

Setembro e Outubro são meses de uvas!

Coisas bonitas #211

Sol de Outono

Parece que estou a ouvir #507

Grass is Greener
Sara Cruz

If I take the time to feel it
I might start to believe it
I’ve always wondered what was best
To be brave or just to let it rest

When the anger starts to creep in
You’re doing things you don’t believe in
But when you stop to think, you realize
You only do it to get even

But the grass is always greener if it rains
Sometimes all you can do it watch it pour
You swear the devil must be playin games
But the grass is always greener if it rains

Used to think when I got older
No weight would sit on my shoulders
And even though it’s not an unbearable lot,
It just looks different than I thought

I see my parents now and wonder
Who they were when they were younger
Was 2007 hard on them too
Or was it just my point of view?

But the grass is always greener if it rains
Sometimes all you can do it watch it pour
You swear the devil must be playin games
But the grass is always greener if it rains

Cores de Outono #120

Está aí o virar da cor!

Sem título #367

Feels like, sometimes...

Coisas bonitas #210

Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)

Sem título #366

Lovely calico markings

Palavras lidas #637

Sins of the Fathers
by Mark Vinz

My daughter wants the car tonight, no,
needs the car tonight—to go somewhere,
to do some things, you know, be back
before it gets too late, of course,
if I say so, which I always do,
of course. I trust her—it's the others
I don't trust, the others I worry about,
and round we go again.

Headlights pass the driveway—
I study every shadow on the wall,
each voice from the dark street,
and laughter—faint, familiar
laughter, rising and falling
on every breath of wind.

Ditto #632

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

--Mary Oliver

Espantos #707

Portugal brilha nos mundiais de atletismo de Tóquio

com mais ou menos surpresa

sempre a mesma bandeira

Sem título #365

Such is the world we live in...

no wonder... from a young age everyone is a little spoiled princess/prince

the notion of imperative success dumps any learning about failure.

Coisas bonitas #209

Sunrises

Coisas que não mudam #715

A montanha do Pico, por estes dias

Conselhos úteis #24

(bela) Fruta Feia segundas feiras em Alvalade

Cores de Outono #119

Já se veem as core des outono

e já cheiram também!

Sem título #364

Calico cat playing with calico cat

Sem título #363

Happy little monster

Palavras lidas #636

Her Sweet Deceit
by James Laughlin

Love has many joys
and best are the

surprises as when
you changed the col-

or of your hair to
make me think you

were someone else
not that you fooled

me with your sweet
deceit I had only

to hear you laugh
to know both girls

were you & that I
loved you both alike.

Ditto #631

The beauty of degradation is how it makes everything else shinier.

--Garrison Keillor

Coisas que mudaram #38

Entregas matinais ao domicílio

Early morning home deliveries

Parece que estou a ouvir #506

Elevador da Glória

Rádio Macau

Daquilo que está por baixo
Até ao que fica no alto
Vão dois carris de metal
Na calçada de basalto

Desde este lugar sem história
Até um lugar na história
Vão apenas dois minutos
No elevador da glória

No elevador da glória
No elevador da glória
No elevador da glória

Duma existência banal
Até ás luzes da ribalta
Há dois carris de metal
Desde a baixa à vida alta

Desde o triste anonimato
Desde a ralé e a escória
Até à fama e ao estrelato
Há o elevador da glória

No elevador da glória
No elevador da glória
No elevador da glória
No elevador da glória
No elevador da glória
No elevador da glória

Caprichos #485

Pela manhã, um café e um pastel de nata... não um bagaço!

Coisas bonitas #208

Weddings... beautiful but way too long.

1 in 20 or so years is the right dosage for me.

Casamentos... lindos mas demasiado longos.

1 a cada 20 anos (mais ou menos) é a dose certa para mim.

Foi neste dia #394 (1976)

On a Sunday evening, 5 September in 1976 on the British ITV...

It's time to play the music

it's time to light the light

it's time to meet the muppets

on the muppet show tonight

It's time to put on make up

it's time to dress up right

it's time to get things started

on the muppet show tonight...

To introduce our guest star

That's what I'm here to do

So it really makes me happy

To introduce to you...

______________________________

By January 1977 100+ countries had acquired the show or were making offers... that's a smashing it before "viral" was a thing.

Coisas que não mudam #714

Já cheira a Outono

Coisas que não mudam #713

Anticipation of Halloween

Espantos #706

Milo fell asleep in the middle of a thorough wash

Palavras lidas #635

Again
by Rosie King

I’m on my knees among the crisp brown crunch
then stand in time to see
two boys slim teens in shorts white t-shirts
faces glowing talking quietly
bounce of a tennis ball fading as they pass
and I’m filled again
with a crush of old sweetness
at how giving a moment can be as it vanishes
the roughened grey branches of the pear
small knobby fingers flung out at every tip
fresh clutch of weeds at my chest

Ditto #630

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

--Mary Schmich