Good Morning folks!

Rainy morning in Santos! Yesterday I took some pictures of Casqueiro River in São Vicente. This is Casqueiro River, which means a river which is full of cracked rocks. I saw ducks swimming there and many birds flying or fishing!

Have a wonderful Monday!

Sandra :)

The crab posed to this picture!

Below: Los Hermanos or The Three blind Crabs stopped to take a picture!
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/Three_Blind_Mice/index.htm

Below: Pompeba Islet  

Below: Canoeing

Hello Everybody!

Did you see the moon yesterday night? It was very big. It seemed that she was very close.
So, she was standing alone? I don't think so. Many a person was looking at her too!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Sandra

Good  Morning! Here it is cloudy and gray! Today I will show you some cities in Brazil. Some cities that I would like to go!

Below: Gramado is situated in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. There are fieds of hydrangea there.

Below: This is the road that leads to Gramado and Canela in  Rio Grande do Sul, south of Brazil. There are flowers  along the highway. Gramado is famous due to them!

Below: Lago Negro (Black Lake)

Below: Canela, which means cinnamon, is located in the Serra Gaúcha of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Below: Entrance of Canela and Gramado

Below: Lago Negro

Below: Campos de Jordão

Below: Flamboyant (Delonix regia) is a tree from Madagascar and from some islands of Indico Ocean. The first trees came to Brazil in the begining of the 19st Century, and today its can be found in the whole country. This tree is one of the most beautiful trees of the world because of the intense color of its flowers. It also known as Paradise Flower and Flaming Tree.

Below: You can ride a camel in Brazil!

Hello Everybody!

Sandra

The sunflower is at the gardens in Santos.

You will see this cable car in December.

The cats ion the gardens!

The Herons are used to flying and fishing on the canals or on the shore.

Banana quit on my window.

Miss Mel on board...Oh Dear!!!

Miss Meeloo is studying!

Good Afternoon everybody! I selected some pictures of Mount Serrat Hill. This is a wonderful trip. The view from the top is stunning! There is a small church there called "Our Lady of Mount Serrat Sanctuary".  We can see the whole city and partial views of Sãoo Vicente, Cubatão, Guarujá and Praia Grande  from up there.

Have a beautiful Wednesday!

Sandra

Below: This church is on the top of Mont Serrat.

Hi everybody! I'm trying to take pictures of the birds on my window! The Christmas lights are beginning to bright on the shops.  Giants  Christmas trees stand illuminated in the Malls. I will take pictures next weekend. I love Christmas very much! This is my favorite holiday!

Below: This is an Ipê Rosa .Ipê, tree symbol of Brazil. It is beautiful when it blooms. It is a feather that their flowers last only some days!!! In the larger tree you can already see the flowers withering. 
Scientific name: Tabebuia chrysotricha
Popular names: ipê-yellow, ipê-tobacco
Origin: Brazil
Family: Bignoniáceas
Brightness: full sun
Load: It can arrive to 8 meters of height
Climate: hot and humid Cup: he/she grates, with diameter a little larger than the half of the height
Propagation: Seeds Soil: fertile and well drained
Prunings: it is just recommended formation prunings Original of Brazil, during the winter, the leaves of the ipê-yellow fall and the tree is completely naked. In the beginning of the spring, however, she collects herself entirely with his floração it yellows, creating the famous show of the flowery ipê-yellow. The more cold and dry it is the winter, adult will be the intensity of the adorned. which belongs to bignoniaceae family. 

Below: You can see Urubuquiçaba Island, which is a small island.

Below: This is the most beautiful part of the beach in Santos.

Below: Ana costa Avenue

Below: There is no locomotives crossing the city anymore.

Ponta da Praia

Below: A Sunday morning.

Below: Canal 1

Below: This isn't a fisher tale! This skeleton is from a whale that got stuck on the beach many years ago. This is one of the attractions of the Fishing Museum in Ponta da Praia Beach. Picture by João Paulo.

Have a wonderful Tue!

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Good Morning Folks!

Sorry for being late but I'm working a little hard. My dog is blind and I have been reading about it. These are pictures of Santos, a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. You have a beautiful aerial view of Santos from Porchat Island.

Below: View of Santos

Below: Santos and São Vicente.

Below: Humminbird Feeder. The birds come here to drink water.

Have a wonderful week!

:wave:

Good Morning Everybody! After having been raining for weeks, finally, it is sunny today! But every place is wet: the streets, the trees, the flowers, etc.

I would like to have your opinion about children's games like hop-scotch, ring-around-the-rosy,and so on. What are the games children are used to playing there? What are the songs the teachers give for children? I like head shoulders leg shoes and Old duke of York.

Well, many class searching today! I'm so happy!

Thank you very much

Have a wonderful week

Sandra

Good Morning from Santos, Brazil!

Hi bloggers! There is a person who really I'm a number one fan. That is Helen Keller who was a person that overwhelmed all the hurdles of her life and show us how to be a winner. She was the beginning of everything.

There are many things we have to do to easy the blind life as to allow guide dogs to be able to enter in every public places because they are the eyes of the blind.
What is echo-location? This is a technique that uses the sound to identify the objects by their echoes. The guide dogs also are their companion.
We are a fortunate people because we can see these pictures, but they can touch them and imagine and even know the collors by using the senses. 
Sorry if I said something wrong, but I am just want to talk about it.

 
Further reading:

Beautiful smile!

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/health/Blind-children-taught-to-see.3762761.jp
http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_4940847
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_dog
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/
http://www.blindcricket.org.uk/
http://www.britishblindsport.org.uk/news.htm

"The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them."
- Helen Keller, 1925

Good Afternoon bloggers! Today is a wonderful day! The sky is clear, the birds fly happily, the insects work on the flowers, etc. I think the sea is beautiful, since I haven't been there yet. Which is a shame! But I watched on tv an interesting issue about a lighthouse near Santos called Moela Lighthouse. Moela is gizzard in English. Only two men live there...besides the dogs... They are from the Brazilian Navy. The Moela Lighthouse is about in front of Guaiuba beach, in Gurujá. Guarujé is across from Santos. The Moela Lighthous was inaugurated in 1830. Located about 2,5 Kilometers from the coast, in Guarujá. Its area is of 266,00 square meters. In early lamps were kept lit with whale oil and received special crystal lens made in London. According to a legend, during the night there are vultos of people (slaves) who worked in the construction of it and died there, being buried far from their people.
His visibility is 50 kilometers, its latitude (S) is 24º 63' and Longitude 46º 16' (W),and maximum altitude of 100 meters. The view is amazing!

Have a wonderful week folks!

Sandra