2008-07-19 » Green are the fields... (There's a poem by Luis de Camões starting like this).
GREEN are the plants (most of them anyway).
Ajuda Botanic Garden, Lisbon - Portugal.
GREEN are the receipts (the receipts' paper is coloured green) of the about 900 000 people working in this country (Portugal) as if they were [...]
2008-04-23 »
The Cork Oak - Sobreiro (Quercus suber, Fagaceae family) is a large native tree to Portugal. The acorns were seeded on January 15th, 2008 - the plants' age is referenced to that date.
[Cascais - Portugal].
[Originally posted on Mar 5th, 2008]
Category: A STORY ABOUT CORK OAKS
2008-03-29 »
The Cork Oak (Quercus suber, family Fagaceae) is a big tree, native to Portugal. And this is a story to continue... In the next posts, I'll insert a ruler, so that we can measure their growth. The acorns were seeded on January 15th - the plants' age is referenced to [...]
2008-02-23 » A few images from urban parks in Europe:
Copenhagen - Denmark
Santiago de Compostela (Saint James of Compostela) - Spain
Nearby London - England
London - England
The urban parks are privileged areas for leisure and for different formal and informal sports activities, which is quite healthier than the exercises in gyms but not yet [...]
2008-02-20 » - at the Botanical Garden of the Natural History National Museum (Lisbon University), widely known as the College of Sciences' Botanical Garden.
"A botanical garden is obviously more than just a garden. The being botanical indicates that the plants growing in it, more than just being beautiful and providing a pleasant [...]