A stroll in Riviera - the flowers

"See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these."
No lillies here, but the same is true about all flowers, isn't it?

A stroll in Riviera - the green

This is not the French Riviera, of course! Riviera de São Lourenço is a development on the coast of the state of São Paulo that goes to great lengths to preserve nature. The Atlantic forest is exuberant: most of it is gone, but fortunately more and more people are becoming aware of the importance of preserving what's left and recovering this magnificent natural asset.

Relaxed Carnival

Carnival. Literally millions of people leaving São Paulo towards the shore. It took us 3 hours to travel 80 miles to our friends' beach house. Now, will anybody tell me it wasn't worth it?

Unreal garden

Visiting Dale Chihuly's glass sculptures exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden was like dreaming about visiting a garden on another planet...

Elsewhere, it's Winter

Beaches of Ceará, my wife's home state, where it's Summer year-round...

California dreaming...

"I've been for a walk,
on a Winter's day..."

The Bay Area and the coast south of San Francisco, some of the most beautiful views in the world...

Wauwatosa

Returning to downtown Milwaukee from a short shopping trip, I decided not to take the freeway and found this little jewel of a town, almost deserted at early afternoon...

Shared memories...

I recently bought a new digital camera and rediscovered the pleasures of photography, so I decided to start this blog to share some of my pictures with my friends. Some will be recent and some will be old, recovered from old slides or scanned from prints; some from remote places, some from around the corner. Just a few postcards straight from my memories...