PF Photography

Cold in Sheffield

2010-12-10T03:18:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-28T01:31:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-17T13:06:00.000-08:00

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

2010-07-24T13:52:00.000-07:00

A little light overcomes the darkness.
(Paul Claudel)

Uncertainty

2010-07-17T09:32:00.000-07:00

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

Thoughts

2010-07-10T23:56:00.000-07:00

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

Esteem

2010-07-03T09:30:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-25T02:10:00.000-07:00

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

Legend

2010-06-05T11:56:00.000-07:00

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

Simplicity

2010-05-30T09:16:00.000-07:00

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

ps: post dedicated to my mother...

Righteous Character

2010-05-22T13:51:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-15T06:45:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-18T03:58:00.001-07:00

"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

2010-03-21T04:05:00.000-07:00

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

2010-02-28T06:51:00.000-08:00

"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

2010-02-17T03:56:00.000-08:00

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

Choices

2010-02-03T05:01:00.000-08:00

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

Ruins

2010-01-13T02:22:00.001-08:00

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

2010-01-01T06:16:00.000-08:00

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

(Bernard Fontenelle)

Christmas 2009

2009-12-20T02:33:00.000-08:00

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

2009-10-16T04:58:00.000-07:00

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

(Gustave Flaubert)

Self Knowledge

2009-10-06T13:53:00.000-07:00

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

Bird...

2009-09-30T03:59:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-22T14:10:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-15T06:33:00.000-07:00

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

(Ralph Emerson)

No harbor nor beaches...

2009-09-08T04:00:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-27T01:02:00.001-07:00

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

(Marquês de Maricá)

Experiments

2009-08-09T22:59:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-01T06:18:00.000-07:00

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

Herd

2009-07-24T01:43:00.000-07:00

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

Peace

2009-07-18T06:49:00.000-07:00

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

Adversity

2009-07-05T03:00:00.000-07:00

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

Conquests

2009-06-28T04:25:00.000-07:00

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

Education

2009-06-21T01:51:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-14T13:03:00.000-07:00

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

Iron sculptures by Antony Gormley in Crosby Beach.

Nation

2009-06-10T05:32:00.000-07:00

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

Searching

2009-06-07T07:21:00.000-07:00

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

Limits

2009-06-04T08:25:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-01T05:20:00.001-07:00

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

2009-05-24T12:02:00.000-07:00

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

Compassion

2009-05-19T10:02:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-10T09:25:00.000-07:00

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

Fire

2009-05-05T15:04:00.001-07:00

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

2009-05-03T01:19:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-28T12:44:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-24T12:25:00.000-07:00

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

The Ocean Of Love

2009-04-19T03:06:00.000-07:00

She stands by the ocean
- hands by her sides,
watching the coming
and going of tides;
watching the gulls as they hover above,
watching a man hold the hand of his love.
Watching the yachts as they head to the shore,
she longs to not be alone any more.
She takes off her socks and she takes off her shoes;
she takes a deep breath and she stares at the moon.
Then, from the corner of her eye, he catches her sight;
she picks up her things and walks into the night.
Yes, it's him that she sees with his hands by his side,
watching the coming and going of tides.
In so many dreams she'd seen that very face,
in all of her dreams, standing in that very place.
She walks over to him, and they stand hand in hand;
For that moment alone in the soft, cold, white sand,
He says, "I knew you'd be here." She says, "I knew you'd come."
Then they stand there in silence and wait for the sun.
Now neither are alone and no more being afraid,
For tonight by the ocean true love may be made.

Some people walk the beach when they want to be alone,
Some search for seashells and others for stones.
Some look for comfort and for a hand to hold,
Like this man and this woman; it's worth more than gold.

So, if at night you walk alone, along the sandy shore,
May a new love take you by the hand and lead you to love's door.
(Karen Gorringe)

Cause - Effect

2009-04-15T17:34:00.000-07:00

The man never invent anything simpler or more beautiful than a manifestation of nature. Given the cause, nature has the effect on the way soon as it can be produced.
(Leonardo da Vinci)

The essential bond

2009-04-13T15:20:00.001-07:00

The essential bond that unites us is that all inhabit this small planet. All breathe the same air. All we care about the future of our children. And we are all mortal.
(John F. Kennedy)

You Raise Me Up

2009-04-08T09:56:00.000-07:00

I invite you to visit a special edition of this post, with audio...

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary
When troubles come and my heart burdened be
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence
Until you come and sit awhile with me

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up... to more than I can be

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up... to more than I can be

There is no life - no life without its hunger
Each restless heart beats so imperfectly
But when you come and I am filled with wonder
Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas
And I am strong, when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up... to more than I can be
You raise me up... to more than I can be

© 2001 Universal Music Norway / Acorn Music, Ireland

Virtue

2009-04-05T00:58:00.000-07:00

The dog is a virtue that can not do it man, was animal.
(Victor Hugo)

This is "Sal", a Portuguese Pointer by my friends Chico and Lígia.

Evidence

2009-04-02T00:33:00.000-07:00

A multitude of inferior beings to be human beings prove an infinity of exceeding it.
(John Locke)

Objective

2009-03-29T02:40:00.001-07:00

Do not just take the steps will take you one day to your objective... every step you do must to be itself a goal in itself, while it takes you forward.
(Johann Goethe)

Smiles

2009-03-26T05:17:00.000-07:00

The sun is to the flowers
like smiles are for humanity.
(Joseph Addison)

Preparation

2009-03-23T18:27:00.000-07:00

The best way for us to prepare for the future is to focus all our imagination and enthusiasm in implementing the perfect job today.
(Dale Carnegie)

Photo taken from the stairs of Bom Jesus de Braga.

Portuguese Sea

2009-03-20T04:30:00.000-07:00

O salty sea, how much of your salt
Are tears from Portugal!
By crossing you, how many mothers cried,
How many children prayed in vain!

How many brides did not married
For you to be ours, O sea!
Did it worth? All is worth
If the soul is not small.

Who wants to go beyond Bojador
Must go beyond the pain.
God gave danger to the sea and the abyss,
But it was on the sea He mirrored the sky.
(Fernando Pessoa)

Baleal Peninsula on center, entrance to Carvoeiro Cape (Peniche) on left side and Berlengas Islands on deep picture... All this in geographical center of Portugal

Grandmother

2009-03-16T14:06:00.000-07:00

A Grandmother is a woman who has no children, so she likes children of the others. Grandmothers have nothing to do, just being there. When they take a walk, go slowly and do not trample the beautiful flowers. They never say 'Hurry up! ". They're usually fat, but still manage to squeeze us the shoes. They know where most people want a slice of cake or a larger slice. Grandmothers wear glasses and sometimes even manage to get their teeth. When they tell us stories, they never jump pieces and they dont mind to tell the same story several times. Grandmothers are the only great people who always have time. Are not as weak as they say, despite dying more times than us.
Everybody should do its best to have a grandmother, especially if do not have a TV.
(text of a 8 years old child)

This post is dedicated to my grandmother Albertina, and I thank all the affection that she gave me throughout my life.

Galo de Barcelos

2009-03-14T10:08:00.000-07:00

the unofficial symbol of Portugal. In any curio or tourist shop you will find the symbol represented by a ceramic rooster and in the motif embroidered in towels, aprons, stamped on key chains, paper weights, etc. Because of its lively colors, the Rooster of Barcelos is difficult to miss where ever it appears. The motif seems to embody the love of life displayed by the Portuguese people...

According to a famous legend, at a banquet given by a rich landowner in Barcelos, a valuable piece of silver was stolen and one of guests was accused of the theft. He was tried by the court and was found guilty. In spite of the overwhelming evidence against him, he still protested his innocence. The magistrate granted the man a final chance to prove his case. Seeing a cock in a basket nearby he said, “If I am innocent, the cock will crow.” The cock crowed and the prisoner was allowed to go free.

Reasons of Pride

2009-03-11T16:02:00.000-07:00

Not despising beauties found in other countries, Portugal offers truly magnificent sceneries like this one... sites that show the uniqueness of a people with a culture, history and unique traditions... reasons of pride for all Portuguese people...

A Rose

2009-03-07T18:13:00.000-08:00

A rose to rise
A rose to fall
A rose to conquer all
Thorns that hurt
Thorns that protect
Thorns to start what cannot be stopped
One rose to say one word
One rose to say many words
Several roses to say nothoing at all

From rise to fall
From hurt to protect
A rose is a rose
That can mean many things
But all depends on you
Your interpretation
Your perspective
Your own heart
With its own rose
Its own thorns

( poem by Nuku Desmond )

[a small tribute to all women]

Child

2009-03-06T04:23:00.001-08:00

Nobody can get to the bottom of a child's laughter.
(Victor Hugo)

In this photo, Francisco Viegas
(9 years old).

Illusion

2009-03-02T08:21:00.000-08:00

Our greatest illusion is that we believe in what we believe to be.
(Henri Amiel)

Shadows & Lights

2009-02-15T04:54:00.001-08:00

Life is a journey of shadows and lights. The important thing is to know vitalise the shadows and use well the lights.
(Henri Bergson)

In a small park of Sheffield,
near my home.

Depth

2009-02-09T02:34:00.000-08:00

Distraction of the majority is the depth of a few. Being so deep is not distracted when all the others are.

(Vergílio Ferreira)

Cold

2009-02-03T12:49:00.000-08:00

If the flame inside you goes down, the souls next to you will die by cold...
(François Mauriac)

Zeal

2009-01-25T10:55:00.000-08:00

Your zeal and my zeal,
Great cloud of witness to take us through;
But Adam and Eve fell into sin.

Of fleshly fathers to correct us,
Of fleashly mothers to care for us,
But to the great gathering of love is what we need.

Chasten your children and teach them the zeal of life,
For the great cloud of witness is with zeal.
My love is higher than the heavens and,
My works are easily noted by you;
But i will wander into the deserts and the mountains.

Perfected is my love by faith,
And i will to you very soon;
But let your zeal lead you on always.

Poem by Edward Kofi Louis

Cathedral

2009-01-18T01:46:00.000-08:00

Man distinguish themselves from men. Nothing is said about the essence of the cathedral if is only talking about the stones. Nothing is said about the essence of man if it is only by the human qualities.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Lincoln Cathedral (England).

Speculations

2009-01-06T01:25:00.000-08:00

All speculations are brown, certainly, but is forever green the golden tree of life.

( Johann Goethe )

Future

2008-12-29T12:13:00.000-08:00

If you want to predict your future,
you should study your past.
( Confucius )

My friend Marcelo Viegas, in Lincoln Christmas Market.

Christmas

2008-12-24T07:25:00.000-08:00

I wish this Christmas we can reflect a little about the importance of this event...
Even symbolic, I wish this date will be a turning point for something better, for bringing forth our best sentiments...
I wish all of us can do plans for a very constructive and satisfactory life for us and for who surrounds us...
I wish we have true sense of our failures committed so far and made plans to correct them in the future...
I wish we can put aside our selfishness and going to look a little more for our equal as members of the same humanity that shares with us this wonderful world...
I wish all of us feel a real inner peace and our attitudes reflect that noble sentiment ...
These are my best wishes for the future of us all day...

Wishes of a True Christmas to all...
Pedro

Smile

2008-12-17T14:52:00.000-08:00

To all who suffer and are lonely, give always a smile of joy. Don't offer to them only your care, but also your heart.
( Madre Teresa de Calcutá )

An excellent suggestion for this Christmas, I would say more, for the whole year that begins... smile, you'll see it doesn't hurt...

Photo registered in Lincoln Christmas Market.

Angel

2008-12-11T11:15:00.000-08:00

And the angel said to her,
"Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
( Luke 1:30-31 )

Photo recorded inside Lincoln Cathedral, where some "DaVinci Code" scenes were recorded, a movie based on Dan Brown best-seller.

Modesty

2008-12-08T03:18:00.001-08:00

The modesty invented the clothes in order to have more pleasure with the nudity.
( Carlo Dossi in "Note Azzurre" )

This nice lady, dressed in traditional costumes, gave welcome visitors to the large christmas market in the city of Lincoln.

Tears

2008-12-04T04:07:00.000-08:00

Ends quickly the pain wich ends in tears, and very long is the period in which the suffering remains in the heart.
( Pietro Aretino )

Autumn Gilt

2008-11-29T23:20:00.000-08:00

The late September sunshine
Lime green on the linden leaves
Burns bronze on the slated roof-tops,
Yellow on the farmer's last sheaves.

It flares flame-like on the fire hydrant,
Is ebony on the blackbird's wings,
Blue beryl on the face of the ocean,
Glints gold on the bride's wedding ring.

A sparkling rainbow on the stained-glass window,
It's a silver sheen on the kitchen sink,
The late September sunshine
It's a chameleon, I think.

( Valerie Bloom, in "Let Me Touch the Sky" )

Pride

2008-11-24T14:38:00.000-08:00

Our pride raise us up to let us fall down from the higher.
( Marquês de Maricá )

Tower City Council's building in Sheffield.

Friendship

2008-11-19T03:07:00.000-08:00

Friendship is a reciprocal predisposition that makes two beings wish happiness to each other.
( Plato )

To my best friend, the one who is always there... with whom I can always count...

Creation

2008-11-15T02:54:00.000-08:00

In all of the great creation, it appears that, despite their diversity, all creatures have a particular task to perform.

( Samson-Raphael Hirsh )

Last Room (?)

2008-11-08T01:00:00.000-08:00

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you?

(Jesus Christ in John 14:2)

Halloween

2008-10-31T10:38:00.001-07:00

Halloween (Night of Horror) is a traditional and cultural event, which occurs on the night of 31 October in Anglo-Saxon countries, with particular relevance in United States, Canada, Ireland and UK, based on origin the pagan celebrations of the old Celtic people.
To learn more click here.

Danger

2008-10-26T14:32:00.001-07:00

Danger disappears when you dare to face him.

( François-René de Chateaubriand )

Cross

2008-10-22T11:04:00.000-07:00

Who suffers much for his beloved, his cross is his glory.

( António Vieira )

Pleasure

2008-10-17T16:51:00.000-07:00

It is better you reap the pleasure of a rose than you observe its roots to microscope.

( Oscar Wilde )

Immortality

2008-10-16T10:07:00.000-07:00

Life is the childhood of immortality.

( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )

Image captured in Millhouse Park, one of the several green spaces in Sheffield.

Dew

2008-10-14T16:08:00.000-07:00

To be perfect love should be like a rotifer: die in a sunbeam, to reborn in a drop of dew.

(Paolo Mantegazza)

The last one from a series of six that I have selected from a visit to the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield.

Events

2008-10-13T05:39:00.000-07:00

Events are waves that threaten the spirit, but also support it.

(Hugo Hofmannsthal in "The Book of Friends")

Consequences

2008-10-12T02:09:00.000-07:00

In nature there are no rewards or punishments. There are consequences.

( Ingersoll )

Judgements

2008-10-10T07:20:00.000-07:00

The reason why some people find it so difficult to be happy is because they are always judging the past better than it was, the present worse than it is and the future better than it will be.

( Marcel Pagnol )

Stupidity

2008-10-09T12:00:00.000-07:00

The most dangerous kind of stupidity is a sharp intelligence.

( Hugo Hofmannsthal in "The Book of Friends" )

Attitude

2008-10-08T11:08:00.000-07:00

The meaning of the things is not the stuff itself... it is our attitude with regard to them.

( Antoine de Saint Exupery )

Cactus photographed in the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield.

Eclipse

2008-10-07T13:11:00.000-07:00

There are people who shine in the second row but they are eclipsed in the first one.

( Voltaire )

Tests with the lamp in my living room.

Sleep

2008-10-04T14:55:00.000-07:00

Like a well lived day offers a good sleep, a well lived life provides a good death.

( Leonardo da Vinci )

Religions

2008-10-03T04:54:00.000-07:00

The religions as well as the lights, they need darkness to shine.
( Arthur Schopenhauer )

Truths

2008-10-03T04:47:00.000-07:00

The truths are fruits that should only be harvested when well mature.

( Voltaire )

Field

2008-10-03T04:42:00.001-07:00

Life is for us what we conceive of it. For the rustic field where it is everything, this field is an empire. For the Caesar whose empire it is still low, that empire is a field. The poor have an empire; to have a great field. Indeed, we have more than our own sensations; them, therefore, not on what they see, we have to explain the reality of our lives.
(Fernando Pessoa in "Livro do Desassossego")

Opinions

2008-09-25T05:12:00.000-07:00

There are opinions that come and die like the leaves of trees, others, however, have a duration of marble and the world.
( Marquis of Maricá )

Roche Abbey, ruins of the monument located near Maltby in the county of South Yorkshire.

Against the Stream

2008-09-23T10:33:00.000-07:00

To reach the source you must swim against the stream.

(Stanislaw Lec)

Source

2008-09-20T10:52:00.000-07:00

You dig inside yourself. It is there that you'll find the source of good, and this can spout continuously if you dig forever.
( Marcus Aurelius )

Source existing in Sheffield city center.

Hypocrisy

2008-09-18T03:44:00.000-07:00

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
( Francois de La Rochefoucauld )

Photo registered in the coastal region, near the tourist Vale de Lobo.

Pollen

2008-09-14T10:54:00.000-07:00

A good bee doesn't lay down on wilted flowers.

( popular proverb )

Image recorded in Sheffield Botanical Gardens.