Garden of Monserrate

Taken on a rainy day.
Even so, the garden had a lot of visitors.
Sometimes, the rain was so strong that we had to take shelter.

It's raining softly

Thanks be to God.

Still hot

Is Autumn but it's still hot. I don't like it.

On a foggy day

The "Serra" (mountain) of Sintra, viewed from the street that goes from Ramalhão to Cascais.

Rain in the making

I hope it rains.

Through the window

Looking to a rainy day through the window.

PS: Not today. Inspite of being already Autumn - wonderful word! - is too hot and not a cloud in the horizon. That's not fair!

To Heaven

In the garden of the park of Palácio Valenças.

Early morning

A lot of people rise very early, in Sintra, to go to work and to school.

The ladder of Jacob

Don't the clouds in the bottom look like angel's wings and the ones in the middle look like steps?


And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.
Genesis, 28: 12

Trees of Sintra

Sintra is full of trees everywhere.

Pink and green

The trees of the Park viewed from the balcony of Palácio Valenças.

Old roofs

Even old they are quite nice.

Night time

Sintra is so beautiful in the nighy as it is in the day.

PS: In this moment, 8.55 AM, it's raining in Sintra which for me is always an happy thing. What is funny is accuweather saying that we have clouds and sun and doesn't say anything about rain!
Some days ago we had an apocalyptic thunder and tropical rain and accuweather was saying that we were having sun!

As long as the eyes can reach

Taken from Quinta do Relógio.

Stars of St. Joseph

Now all over Sintra.

Rain and thunder

On a day of rain and thunder.

The fog

Sintra is a place where we have fog quite often. Not today. It's still hot.
I long for Autumn and cooler days.

Cinderela palace

The "Casa dos Penedos" or the Penedos's House, was designed by the architect Raul Lino and built in 1922.
A penedo is a big rock.
So beautiful and in the middle of all that greenery, we could imagine that Cinderela palace was a bit like that.

A day in the mist

Sintra is a place where there is fog quite often. This, added to the romantic architecture, gives to the place a special mistic - and misty - look.

Waiting for Autumn

Big cloud

A big cloud I saw in the sky of Sintra some time ago. It was the sunset.
Theme Day for September at City Daily Picture: Big.

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