Visiting Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo & an Argentinian restaurant

November 18, 2016 After our visit to MAC-USP, Dale and I crossed the bridge over the busy thoroughfares below, to reach Ibirapuera Park and more art museums! There was something called the Bienal – the 32nd biannual art exposition – housed in one of the park’s buildings, very near the ramp that extended over the […]

Cee’s Oddball Challenge: Merry Christmas!

Cee’s Oddball Challenge, Feb. 27, 2017 November 20, 2016 This colorful line of donkeys (or horses?) was probably displayed as potential Christmas gifts for young children.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Way Up There

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, I looked up pictures that I took looking up! Here are the results: Last but not least, here is my favorite of all! I was fascinated by a species of pine tree found only in the region around the state of Paraná, Brazil. Its scientific name is araucaria but people […]

WPC: A Good Match

For this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, these are some good pairings or matches that I have photographed. I have grouped them into different types of matches. Color matches Couples/love matches 2 Cakes for a 50th Wedding Anniversary (Des Plaines, July 2015) Artistic harmony match Some things just go together matches

Thursday Doors: Helio Oiticica

For Norm’s Thursday Doors feature this week, I am contributing something somewhat different. On Tuesday, my husband and I visited the Chicago Art Institute. I was especially interested in a special exhibit by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980). Oiticica was born in Rio de Janeiro and during his 25-year career he created works to appeal […]

São Paulo’s art museums: MAC-USP

The city of São Paulo has a huge number of art museums and art installations. In part this is because Brazil has many artists of all types. The first art museum we visited was MAC-USP (Museum of Contemporary Art – University of São Paulo), adjacent to Ibirapuera Park in the Vila Mariana district. On November […]

São Paulo: Public art in Vila Mariana

São Paulo, November 18, 2016 Our plan for today was to walk to Ibirapuera Park and I asked our host how to get there. He described it to me. Leaving the building, you turn left and go until you get to a curve – I brought up a map on my phone GPS. There are […]

Airbnb: an alternative to hotels

Our stay in São Paulo last November was our first experience with Airbnb. Airbnb has a database of apartment and room rentals worldwide. On their web site, you first choose where you want to go and then you can look at a variety of places to stay, filtering for factors such as neighborhood, whether you […]

WPC: Shadow

Here are my entries for the Weekly Photo Challenge topic Shadow: The first two pictures are of my cat, Hazel. A beam of sunlight highlights her light areas with the rest in shadow. A few years ago, my husband and I were on our way home from a trip down South, and we stopped in […]

Ukrainian Memorial: Our last sightseeing excursion in Curitiba

November 16, 2016 Carlos, D. Lais, Dale and I went the Ukrainian Memorial, our last sight-seeing site in Curitiba. It is a park within the larger Tingui Park, surrounded by forest and on the grounds is a replica of an old Ukrainian Orthodox church and a little gift shop. The church is a replica of […]