Cold in Sheffield

With the anticipation of winter in rigorous conditions, with heavy snowfall occurred in November and early December last year, it created chaos with some main roads cutted. Actually it is not common so cold in the UK. According to statistics, the temperature drops to -18 degrees Celsius in some places making a record of the last seventeen years. The positive side of the issue is certainly the beauty of the landscape and the promise of a true "white Christmas", will this year be the same?
White or not, a merry Christmas to everyone :)

ps: three versions of this photo included

New Horizons

There's a spring in my step
because I've met you,
You told me you loved me,
and I love you too.

I see new horizons
across seas of blue,
and I'll count every hour
till I'm walking with you.

It's not spring, it is autumn,
with her fiery hue,
Oh how I love autumn,
since the day I found you.

(Joyce Hemsley)

Restart

Restart... if you can, without anxiety and without haste and the steps you give in this hard way of the future, you should give them with freedom, until you can reach your objectives, do not be happy with only half fruit.
(Miguel Torga)

After a period of inactivity as a blogger for over than three months, it is high time to start over. Sometimes we let ourselves be discouraged by something less positive that happens in our life and sadly we leave behind what we strongly worked with passion and dedication. For personal reasons, I needed some time away but it's time to return. Following the words of Torga, I'm restarting this and other projects that I left on the way wich have given me much joy. I also leave an apology to all those who have been visiting this area during this period of neglect and renew the invitation to pass through here more regularly from now on. Certainly you will find frequent updates at least with a weekly frequency.

Best regards,
Pedro
Sheffield, 17th November

Darkness

A little light overcomes the darkness.
(Paul Claudel)

Uncertainty

It is preferable to bear the ills we have than fly to those we not know.
(William Shakespeare)

Thoughts

Thoughts are like the flowers, those caught in the morning remain longer lush.
(Andre Gide)

Esteem

The esteem is based always on any principle and we esteem nobody when we try to esteem all the world.
(Jean Molière)

Hope Motor Show

This time I leave you a different record, the result of a visit to the Hope Motor Show.
Small details of big cars...

Legend

The story is the fact that deforms, the legend is the falsity that embodies.
(Jean Cocteau)

Simplicity

The ideal beauty is in calm and serene simplicity.
(Johann Goethe)

ps: post dedicated to my mother...

Righteous Character

A lively intelligence is no good if is not serving a righteous character, a watch is not perfect when it works fast, but when it works right.
(Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues)

Morality

Morality is a plant whose roots are in Heaven, and whose fruits and flowers beautify and embalm the Earth.
(Hughes Lamennais)

ps: I dedicate this post to my great friend Khaled Salah...

Life

"Enjoy your life and learns that the worst is the philosophy of whining that lies beside the river to mourn the end of the course constant of water.
The letter is never to stop them, make yourself comfortable with the Law, and comes to enjoy it."
(Machado de Assis)

Like a Tree

Like a tree, which although dropped, continues to grow as their roots are healthy and strong, so will continue to suffer more and more the man who has not cut off their greed.
(Dhammapada, 338)

Calm

"The calm of the wise is nothing more than the art of keeping the excitement that goes in their hearts."
(François de La Rochefoucauld)

Reaches

It is essential wanting to get more than we can achieve, if else why we need the sky?
(Robert Browning)

Choices

Present is not the past in power, it is the moment of choice and action.
(Simone de Beauvoir)

Ruins

There are two kinds of ruins: one is the work of time, other men's work.
(François Chateaubriand)

This post include a sequence of three different photos from same place, with three versions each.

First Cold

On the heart connections, as in the seasons, the first cold is the most sensitive.

(Bernard Fontenelle)

Christmas 2009

I wish everyone a great Christmas, full of good things, above all very healthy for the body and complete peace for the soul.

We have all had the opportunity to achieve the goals that we proposed last year by this time, but if we had not, 2010 is a year of changes for the better, for our best and the best of our fellows, to amend what was poorly done or finally concretize those actions have not yet had the courage or willingness to perform.

Your Friend,
Pedro

Recall

The recall is the hope inside out. Look to the bottom as it looked at the top of the tower.

(Gustave Flaubert)

Self Knowledge

Know yourself and you'll know the universe and the gods.
(Socrates)

Bird...

Slowly waking to cacophony,
The pre-concert
Tuning of a symphony.

Then silent pause, pre-syncopation,
To build what’s now
Our anticipation.

Sir Cardinal takes the opening bar.
Calling his wife,
Who responds from afar.

Repeating notes like a fine-tuned string,
He corresponds
To a fine violin.

Robin’s come, she’s trilling Ola,
Adding much,
With her viola.

Mourning Doves are more like cellos,
A supporting cast
Of charming fellows.

Blue Jays’ more a musical riddle,
Do they play brass,
Or more bass fiddle?

The shiny section starts en masse,
As Grackles screech
Like a hinge of brass.

Starlings add discordant notes,
As a little flock
Above us floats.

Hermit Thrush acts the hobo,
With perfect pitch,
On his solo oboe.

It’s often nice to add a singer,
And Wood Thrush alto,
Is a real humdinger.

Nothing like a finale drummer,
And "Woody" throbs
Like a frenzied plumber.

(poem by Joseph Kozlowski)

White Houses

Your door is shut against my tightened face,

And I am sharp as steel with discontent;
But I possess the courage and the grace
To bear my anger proudly and unbent.

The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,
A chafing savage, down the decent street;
And passion rends my vitals as I pass,
Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.
Oh, I must search for wisdom every hour,

Deep in my wrathful bosom sore and raw,

And find in it the superhuman power

To hold me to the letter of your law!

Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate
Against the potent poison of your hate.
Poem by Claude McKay

Temple

God builds His temple in our heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

(Ralph Emerson)

No harbor nor beaches...

Let us love! Let us enjoy the fleeting hours! Man has no harbor, the time has no beaches, time's running and we passed.
(Alphonse de Lamartine)

Understanding

Much light dazzles the eye, a lot of science confuses understanding.

(Marquês de Maricá)

Experiments

This time I decided to do some experiments with a recent photo, taken by the sea, near Blackpool ...
Each photograph can be very practical but can also be endowed with a subjective vision that gives us only what we see and interpret our way to the image that we have ahead.
I present here ten different versions of the same photo ten personal interpretations of the same image.
A good week for all ...

Obstacles

If you find a path without obstacles, you probably will not lead to anywhere.
(Frank Clark)

Herd

From all animals, man is the hardest to live in a herd.
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Peace

Peace of heart is a haven of men.
(Plato)

Adversity

Adversity awakens in us capacities that would have been asleep in favorable circumstances.
(Horace)

Conquests

The real conquests, the ones that you do not repent, are those that make against ignorance.
(Napoleon)

Education

If you know You shouldn't avoid to teach to those who do not learned. Education is like the sun to create a new day: Do clear the mind for those who teach and illuminate those who learn.
(Inácio Dantas)

Habits

Human's natures are similar but their habits keep them appart.
(Confucius)

Iron sculptures by Antony Gormley in Crosby Beach.

Nation

A nation is composed by its founders and by the ones who still alive.
(Ernest Renan)

Searching

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find.
(George Moore)

Limits

No animal is more tragic than the man. All the other ones are satisfied with limits of nature, only the man is stubborn to overcome them.
(Erasmus)

Fantasy

Life is an open exposed adventure. Do not protect the children too much. Fortify them inside to they can play well with any kind of toy.
(Emmanuel Mounier)



I let you a set of toys, tools children use to develop them creative power... Everyday should be Children's Day...

Loneliness

Nobody ever could develop the faculties of intelligence if, at least, not interim moments of loneliness in his life.
(Thomas Quincey)

Compassion

The truly compassion makes us truly human and prevents us turned to stone, as the monsters of wickedness of legends.
(Anatole France)


Pena National Palace
(Sintra, Portugal)

Friends

Wherever we are, our friends are our world.
(William James)

Fire

Everyone of us has a fire in the heart for something.
It is our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
(Mary Lou Retton)

Mother

If it were possible to find the first and true germ of all assigned high and all honest and generous actions that we are proud, we would find it almost always in the heart of our mother.
(Edmondo Amicis)

I dedicate this post to my mother, the one who guided my steps since the beginning, a trully Friend and teacher of all I am today...

Tree of Good and Evil

But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
(Génesis 2:17)

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
(Génesis 3:5)

Freedom

Only is equal to other people who can prove to be and only deserve freedom who knows how to conquer it.
(Charles Baudelaire)