Foi neste dia #344 (1345, 1391, 1838)

O dia 31 de Outubro conta com aniversários de três reis portugueses de três dinastias diferentes: a fechar a primeira dinastia, D. Fernando nascido em 1345; o segundo rei da segunda dinastia, D. Duarte nascido em 1391; e finalmente, quase a fechar a quarta e última dinastia, D. Luís nascido em 1838.

Cores de Outono #67

Ainda visíveis as belas cores de outono

Palavras lidas #435

Bondage Love
by John J. Brugaletta

Houdini’s audiences loved him.

They were poor people, illiterates:
hod carriers, icemen, washerwomen,
undernourished kids.

They understood what it meant
to have your hands manacled,
your feet tied,
to be put in a straitjacket
then in a box
and sunk.
They knew what it was like to have no way out.

It was the way the world made love to them.

So he showed them, without a word,
that one could have no way out,
not a single, possible way out,

and get out.

Foi neste dia #343 (1929)

Also on a Tuesday, 90 years ago, the New York Stock Exchange dropped $14b on a single day.

Inverno #60

Manhãs congeladas

Frosty mornings

Cores de Outono #66

October
Evalyn Callahan Shaw

October is the month that seems
All woven with midsummer dreams;
She brings for us the golden days
That fill the air with smoky haze,
She brings for us the lisping breeze
And wakes the gossips in the trees,
Who whisper near the vacant nest
Forsaken by its feathered guest.
Now half the birds forget to sing,
And half of them have taken wing,
Before their pathway shall be lost
Beneath the gossamer of frost.
Zigzag across the yellow sky,
They rustle here and flutter there,
Until the boughs hang chill and bare,
What joy for us—what happiness
Shall cheer the day the night shall bless?
‘Tis hallowe’en, the very last
Shall keep for us remembrance fast,
When every child shall duck the head
To find the precious pippin red.

Cores de Outono #65

Cores de outono molhadas

Wet autumn colors

Caprichos #564

Feeling spoiled

Cores de Outono #64

Slightly foggy, slightly wet, but very yellow

Nevoeiro ligeiro, chão um pouco molhado, amarelo constante

Coisas que não mudam #527

More brexit shenanigans

Coisas que não mudam #526

For a while now, the UK has been the laughing stock of the world

and no one is brave enough to call of this charade...

Coisas que não mudam #525

Quem deixou cair os cogumelos... um atrás do outro?

Who dropped the mushrooms... one after the other?

Cores de Outono #63

Amarelo em todo o seu esplendor

Yellow in all its splendour

Caprichos #563

Chá com história / Tea with history

Pormenores #158

And when you think you saw everything...

E quando pensamos que já vimos tudo...

Cores de Outono #62

As folhas pelo chão

e os cogumelos, que crescem como cogumelos :-)

Cores de Outono #62

Sonnet LXXIII

William Shakespeare

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish’ d by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

Coisas que não mudam #524

Belíssimas cores ao final do dia, hoje em Barcelona

Beautiful colors at the end of the day, today in Barcelona

Coisas que não mudam #523

Manhãs fria, lago fumegante

Cold morning, smokey lake

Caprichos #562

Mito: gatos pretos não são fotogénicos

Myth: black cats are not photogenic