A work day, but the beautiful sunrise had me out with the camera early!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Sunrise in Santa Cruz
04 January 2012
A work day, but the beautiful sunrise had me out with the camera early!
A work day, but the beautiful sunrise had me out with the camera early!
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunset and Moonrise
02 January 2012
The sunset and moonrise this evening was really beautiful. I wish I had better photography skills to capture it exactly as I saw it - the moon looked so much bigger and brighter and thc colors more vivid.
Garden picture of the day: strange unknown flower which reminds me of a macaw.
The sunset and moonrise this evening was really beautiful. I wish I had better photography skills to capture it exactly as I saw it - the moon looked so much bigger and brighter and thc colors more vivid.
Garden picture of the day: strange unknown flower which reminds me of a macaw.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
New Year in Brazil
01 January 2012
I was blessed to receive an invitation to spend New Year's Eve with a friend and her family here in Brazil. Apparently celebrating New Year's Eve on the beach with an all night party is common among those who have the money to travel, but I found the typical family celebration at home to be quite similar to that in the US, with champagne and fireworks in the street at midnight.
My oh-so-professional video footage of the fireworks:
A Brazilian New Year tradition is to eat lentils, because their shape resembles coins and therefore eating them is said to bring prosperity. I don't think I have ever had such delicious lentils - this woman's mother is a wonderful cook! Lentils, potatoes, bacon and magic. Or maybe the bacon is the magic. I don't know, but it was awesome.
The first day of the new year was spent lazing around in the backyard, eating plums fresh off the tree, drinking caipirinhas, having churrasco (Brazilian barbecue), and watching their boxer do silly things. Why spend money on pet toys? Try ordinary household items like this metal bowl!
Next door was a banana tree which must have been a different type than those I saw in Rio de Janeiro, because those had pink flowers, not black. I saw on the internet that in Southeast Asia these big black banana flowers are cooked and eaten; I wonder what they taste like.
I was blessed to receive an invitation to spend New Year's Eve with a friend and her family here in Brazil. Apparently celebrating New Year's Eve on the beach with an all night party is common among those who have the money to travel, but I found the typical family celebration at home to be quite similar to that in the US, with champagne and fireworks in the street at midnight.
My oh-so-professional video footage of the fireworks:
A Brazilian New Year tradition is to eat lentils, because their shape resembles coins and therefore eating them is said to bring prosperity. I don't think I have ever had such delicious lentils - this woman's mother is a wonderful cook! Lentils, potatoes, bacon and magic. Or maybe the bacon is the magic. I don't know, but it was awesome.
The first day of the new year was spent lazing around in the backyard, eating plums fresh off the tree, drinking caipirinhas, having churrasco (Brazilian barbecue), and watching their boxer do silly things. Why spend money on pet toys? Try ordinary household items like this metal bowl!
Next door was a banana tree which must have been a different type than those I saw in Rio de Janeiro, because those had pink flowers, not black. I saw on the internet that in Southeast Asia these big black banana flowers are cooked and eaten; I wonder what they taste like.
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