Gifted with Love and Beauty

Feel like I was gifted with a lot of beauty and love today, and it's helped the transition; I am grateful.

We had to go to Farinha Branca (White Flour) today to pick up our car (which broke down on our way to the airport for flight to Brazil). Vitor gladly offered his car. On the way back, we drove over the Montargil dam - the sun was setting, the lake was like glass, three cormorants were making circles, the sky was streaked with pink, and I went crazy with the camera.

But my husband liked this one the best, taken as the mechanic was leading him out to our car, followed by his dog. Have you ever seen a garage look so glorious? Insurance paid for all but the battery; he doesn't have a card machine, so he said - just give the money sometime to the guy you bought the car off in Mora, and he'll pay it into my account. (!)

As I waited, I watched a bent over lady with a crutch picking olives in the silence of a golden afternoon.