My creation, originally uploaded by materfamilias knits. I’ve written so little about our time in Portugal, almost nothing about Lisbon, that I’m feeling guilty, almost as if I’d snubbed or betrayed a new friend. I’ve…
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This past spring, in preparation for our trip to Lisbon, I read two novels set in that city, Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon and Robert Wilson’s A Small Death in Lisbon, which between them…
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Here,when I photographed the yellows and whites in my garden last week, the Romneya Coulteri (California tree poppy) buds were still doing this, beautifully. They’re not at all subtle now, but they are stunning. I’m…
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I’ve told you hardly anything about our time in Portugal, nothing about the time we spent in the Beira, a mainly rural region of mountains, terraced hillsides, garden-covered valleys, and sparkling rivers. We stayed at…
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Snapshots of Figueroa del Foz, our first stop in Portugal after renting a little Fiat in Lisbon and driving north and towards the coast, pleased to find that navigating the main motorway, at least, was…
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