Rio de Janeiro: Sugarloaf

November 27, 2016 Sugarloaf (Pão de Açúcar in Portuguese) is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Rio. It has become a tradition for me to go up to the top and watch the sun set on my last evening in Rio. I look down on this beautiful city and am filled with a […]

FOTD: Pink Lilies

For Cee’s Flower of the Day: my neighbor’s pink lilies:

Thursday Doors: Chicago

Norm’s Thursday Doors, 6/29/17

FOTD: Butterfly Weed

These lovely, tiny orange flowers are produced by a member of the milkweed family, known as “butterfly weed.” I have a beautiful crop of it this year (it was planted last year) and hope that it will attract monarch butterflies! There is a milkweed beetle that lives on the plant, and I found one under […]

Rio de Janeiro: Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM)

The Modern Art Museum (MAM) of Rio de Janeiro was inaugurated in 1948 in the Boavista Bank building. Being just after the war, there was an emphasis on European artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. In the 1950s, the building was built on its present site conceptualized by architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy. Roberto […]

Rio de Janeiro: Flamengo and Cinelândia

November 27, 2016 Our intention today was to visit MAM (Museum of Modern Art) in the morning and then take my sister-in-law to Sugarloaf. We got sort of a late start, however, so when we got to MAM it was already close to lunchtime, and my husband’s stomach does not like to wait! We stopped […]

FOTD: Princess Diana clematis

My neighbor is a horticultural designer. Lucky me! She has designed the garden area in front of my house, where she put two trellises, one with purple clematis, one with this delicate Princess Diana clematis. Its technical name is clematis texensis. Cee’s Flower of the Day, 6/28/17

FOTD: African daisies

For Cee’s Flower of the Day today, here are photos I took at the Chicago Botanic Gardens on June 8:

CFFC: Chairs

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is furniture. I have a collection of pictures of chairs and benches. I also have cute pictures of little children at play on their own furniture. Here are some of my favorites: And finally, I have posted this before, but it’s one […]

A walk in Rio’s Flamengo neighborhood

November 24, 2016 Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., and since Carlênia, my sister-in-law, has dual citizenship, I had promised her we’d take her to a nice restaurant of her choice for “Thanksgiving” dinner. She chose a famous Italian restaurant, La Fiorentina, conveniently located in Leme* just a couple of blocks from the apartment where […]