PHOTOS

                        Photo by Dora Pacheco Dias in Achada, São Miguel, Açores

 

 Toronto is…

Queen Street West

Spadina and Queen Street

City Hall

King Street and University Avenue

Ryerson University

Ryerson Image Centre

Yonge and Bloor

Mowat Block

Dundas and Yonge

Yonge Street

Yonge Street

Yonge Street

Yonge Street

                    Iconic Sam the Record Man sign available in a fabulous wood finish                   by Nicola Kidd at www.resurfaced.ca

Like all immigrants to the city, the Portuguese came to Honest Ed’s

Honest Ed’s display Galo de Barcelos loves Canada

Honest Ed’s is Theatre

Honest Ed’s is handmade signs

Honest Ed’s is culture to the end

Bridge on Bathurst Street

Wellesley and Church

Wellesley and Church

LGBTQ Community Centre on Church Street

Mural outside 519

The 519

Church Street

Rebuilding Toronto

Near Yonge Street and Gloucester

 

Dundas West Fest, Toronto, June 2015

Azorean treat sold out

Malassadas in Provincetown, USA

Portas da Cidade (City Gate) of Ponta Delgada replicated outside St. Helen’s Church

Local band on Dundas in front of St. Helen’s Church

Once a Portuguese grocery store, Victoria Supermarket, at Brock and Dundas

The Lula lounge on Dundas

Side street near Dundas

Always the Azores

    On Spadina

    On Spadina and Harbord

        Somewhere on Harbord

Oxford Street and Augusta

 

Fika Café, Kensington Market

Still Toronto …

Cherry Beach

Beaches, better known as “the beach” by locals

Harbourfront, Lake Ontario

                                                                    Somewhere in Toronto

Lake Ontario East End

Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario peace

Still Toronto

Bluffer’s Park in the early morning

The Bluffs

Bluffer’s Park

Bluffer’s Park on the edge of Lake Ontario

Rosetta McClain Gardens

Toronto from Tommy Thompson Park

Lake Ontario from Tommy Thompson Park

Ward’s Island Ferry

St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto

Al Purdy, Canadian Poet in Queen’s Park, contemplating saudade

St. Michael’s College quad at dusk

Queen’s Park

Peace offering at University and Dundas

Portuguese azulejo at St. Patrick Subway Station, Toronto

 

Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Açores

Portas da Cidade

Igreja Matriz de São Sebastião Church

Ponta Delgada at dawn

Broken wall after a storm

Cobblestone street

Can’t get away from Toronto

Mail still gets delivered to this beautiful ancient door

Love Heals in any language

Poet Antero de Quental, born in Ponta Delgada, committed suicide close to here on September 11, 1891, near Convento de Nossa Senhora da Esperança

I can’t be the woman in your life because I am the woman in my life!

Convento da Esperança

Igreja de São José Church

Graffiti comes to Ponta Delgada

Azulejos

Cherubs everywhere

Respiradores (óculos)

Best bookstore in Ponta Delgada now closed forever.

Casa das Palmeiras

Although not a Portuguese food, even here, Pizza is forever.

Carlos Machado Museum

Igreja de São José Church

The city and the ocean

Abandoned house

Flowers growing on abandoned house

Proud Azorean cat

Strolling through the city.

São Miguel, Açores

Nordeste coastline

Nordeste

Hydrangea in Blue

View from Planalto dos Gramihais

Planalto dos Graminhais

Mosteiros

Lucky cat living by the ocean

Fishing in Nordeste

Hydrangea, Hortênsia, or nevelões, are everywhere throughout the island.

Furnas

View of Lagoa das Furnas from Pico do Ferro Miradouro

Furnas natural spring water

Parque Terra Nostra

Parque Terra Nostra

Parque Terra Nostra

Parque Terra Nostra

Parque Terra Nostra

Parque Terra Nostra

Parque Terra Nostra

Someone once lived here but the flowers remain.

Flor das Conteiras found everywhere in Nordeste

Porta

Nasturtium

Terceira island

Janela

Festa in Vila Franca do Campo

Ribeira Grande

Ribeira Grande

Soccer in Ribeira Grande

Miradouro in Nordeste

Nordeste

Church in Achada

Nordeste

Nordeste

Achadinha, Nordeste

Lagoa das Sete Cidades

Sete Cidades

Sete Cidades

Farol da Ponta do Arnel, Nordeste

Oh, to be a cow in the Azores!

Achada

Gates into orchards

Someone’s garden

Old Achada

Ruined water mill

Water mill

Along the coast of S. Miguel

Achada mist

Sunrise along the coast

Sunset along the coast

Land and the Atlantic merge as one

Mosteiros

Praia de S. Roque

Ferraria Coast

Ferraria lighthouse

Ponta do Citrão

Ribeirinha

Where does the sky start and the Atlantic begin?

O mar in Nordeste

Calhau in Achada

The Atlantic Ocean cradles the Azores

Ocean and Rock

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