Weekly Photo
Last week's picture was the 'underground' Alentejo.
This week I bring you a typical landscape from Alentejo.
I had another photo I would pick as weekly photo but due to its size I decided against it. Still here you have the one that was almost my choice for this week:
This second "photo" (actually several photos badly stitched together) is Lagoa das Sete Cidades, on the Island of São Miguel, Azores. This place is famous for its two different colored lagoons inside the same crater.
Legend has it there was a shepherd who fell in love with a Princess, but her father as is usual in this fairy tale stories wouldn't allow them to get married, although the Princess herself wasn't that uptight. Maybe because they lived on an Island the thought of eloping didn't cross their little minds and instead they simply burst into tears. That is why, people say, there is a green and a blue lagoon: the lagoons formed from the tears of the Princess and the shepherd, green for the color of her eyes and blue for the shepherd's eye color.
But this is not the only legend about these islands. Some people say the nine Azorean islands are all that is left from the lost continent of Atlantis.
Photography
PS The new banner is a fast stitch of several photos taken from the top of a Waikiki Hotel.
This week I bring you a typical landscape from Alentejo.
I had another photo I would pick as weekly photo but due to its size I decided against it. Still here you have the one that was almost my choice for this week:
This second "photo" (actually several photos badly stitched together) is Lagoa das Sete Cidades, on the Island of São Miguel, Azores. This place is famous for its two different colored lagoons inside the same crater.
Legend has it there was a shepherd who fell in love with a Princess, but her father as is usual in this fairy tale stories wouldn't allow them to get married, although the Princess herself wasn't that uptight. Maybe because they lived on an Island the thought of eloping didn't cross their little minds and instead they simply burst into tears. That is why, people say, there is a green and a blue lagoon: the lagoons formed from the tears of the Princess and the shepherd, green for the color of her eyes and blue for the shepherd's eye color.
But this is not the only legend about these islands. Some people say the nine Azorean islands are all that is left from the lost continent of Atlantis.
Photography
PS The new banner is a fast stitch of several photos taken from the top of a Waikiki Hotel.
posted by DCveR at 11:48 AM
10 Comments:
What beautiful land, what a contrast!
The first one looks mighty dry, doesn't it? Need the shepherd boy and princess to weep.
I love lengends, stories, fables, myths. I store them up to entertain children too.
GG: Although this is a very small country you get a lot of very different landscapes. From the green luxurious mountains (although much of that is charred now) to this yellow/brown landscapes in the interior south. But Alentejo is not just these yellow dry fields. There is green too. It really is a beautiful country, too bad that sometimes we are not able to keep it that way. And we do have plenty of legends.
love the banner!
lisa: But if I had shrunk it to the pic of the week width it would hardly be visible.
vesparosso: Ok, Ok, I confess... seeing your new one gave me the idea to change mine.
Gosh, they make my London locale look so ugly in comparison!
love the new banner-
and the pictures- are the romance!!!!
gorgeous banner, DCveR!
nml: Sadly if I were to post the view from my lab's window it would be very depressive.
ale & cadiz: Thank you so much.
isis: And you were the one who didn't knew what to post some time ago?! Thanks for sharing the Creve Coeur Lake story.
Hey! That looks about like the view of the brochure I am working on for the Waikiki condo high rise project. (1 bdr start at 600K.) Only the view frm my project looks east toward DH. Thanks for reminding me I should be working on the copy for that and not commenting on blogs!
Agree, Portugal has so many unique scenes, and we are so lucky to have you to bring Portugal to us! The grass always looks greener, doesn't it? I was thrilled to get off my rock and over to Europe and the very exciting cities of London & Florence. Country mice do you know... need to get out more!
kris: It's the view from the top of the Ohana Royal Islander, so it should look familiar to you. :D
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