View to a chimney... Just a picture to keep the blog active, until I start posting again.

My angry cat...

Tourist bus...

Yesterday, passing near the countryside...

Picture of one of the main churches in Chiado being restored...

More pictures from the day in Alfama...

Today is Saint Anthony's Day in Lisbon (he was born here in 1195). I spent the day with J. in Alfama, one of the capital's typical barrios, and took these pictures...

Santa Apolónia train station, Lisbon.

Mum's garden... An attempt to imitate you guys (K., Metallyptiva) in macro photography...

Views to Lisbon's downtown, previously posted in my experimental photoblog. I hope I can handle larger photos here from now on...

What a mess...

It's the end of May, and the jacarandas in Lisbon are once again covered with clusters of blue tubular flowers. One of my first memories of being in Lisbon, as a kid, was of walking down the Avenue 5 de Outubro, with the pavement covered with these blue/lilac flowers, that kept falling from the trees as I walked. I remember my mother telling me of its name and of how it was common to see them in some streets in the colonial East Africa, Mozambique, where she grew up (the trees would blossom in the southern hemisphere around December). Ever since than, my fascination with these wonderful trees, brought from Brazil centuries ago, has not ceased, and each jacaranda in the city looks like a treasure to me, bringing memories of happy summer days...

The jacaranda flowers cover the streets and the cars...

Stairs, near Chiado area in Lisbon.

View from the train window, with the huge statue of Cristo Rei visible in the horizon.

This is our most modern train (it even has an upper floor!). It had been a few years since I had crossed the Tagus river by train, that passes below the 25 De Abril bridge.

View to the well known Areeiro tower in Lisbon.

Hello guys, I haven't (photo)blogged as much as I wanted these days, due to the lack of time. I'm glad to know you're out there taking more pictures of life around you. I just found out about pinhole cameras and I suppose I won't get any rest until I get one (although I have forgotten completely how to use film...). Anyway, just posting some more pictures where I've tried to simulate that effect.

Just trying to take pictures at night again... Quite a long way to go yet, until anything watchable is ready...

I've used my ultra zoom camera to get this picture, from my parents home, near Alvalade. This apartment block was posh and fancy in the 1950's, and seriously needs some restoration. But I wonder if it's still possible, as the owners have completely changed the architecture in some balconies, covering some of them with bricks and doing very little to disguise them from the outside...

Wouldn't it be nice to have an apartment in this building? Unlike in Madrid, such doors in the balconies are quite uncommon in Lisbon - as are buildings with such architecture. This one is in Campo Grande, just in front of the park and the main avenue.