"The sun was setting down on the horizon of the São Lourenços beach and I was in the sea surfing the waves with my body, watching the movement of the water and, when the waves come I join to that moviment like part of that. " After a few times I contemplated the reflection of the sun on that water mirror, a color ... no ... were many colors, esmerald, gray and a silver red effect that I had never ever seen before. At that moment the time stopped.

 

The road to Algarve cross yellow wheat fields with curve rough paths leading to a sinusoidal horizon. In the landscape many cork trees, carob trees and olive trees. Near to the settlements many farmers selling oranges and watermelonsin in little tents. Shepherds guiding the lambs to their rest, suddenly, dogs appear and join to the man and give him protection. Or was it to protect the brothers lambs? Who do not know their cruel destiny.

 

The Algarve is warm, the nights are hot, and the day is full of people on the beaches. Foreigners who spend their vacation to guarantee the profits of the local people at the summer season, I can not imagine what they do at the low season. I hope they live! If they know what it that.

 

From Albufeira to Ferragudo I traveled each spot in an old 50cc Scooter on my days off. Walking down hillsides with risk of collapse and visiting spectacular beaches, some inaccessible ... not for my eyes or for my camera.

 

It was always like that, lay the towel on the sand, a bath in the sea, a dive to go down and see another world ... feeling the pressure on the eardrums until the limit. And then assimilate that experience in the warm soft sand. Then when I had to open my eyes it was still all there! All that real paradise, the blue water, the Spanish girls doing Topless ... our body recharges itself in the sun, the movement of the body, the flexibility in the antiflexions, retroflections and twists gave me new life, +++ Life. More satisfaction. Everything is always there, but you have to learn how to access it. Only a quiet mind knows how to do it. Contemplating the dynamics of nature is one of the keys.

 

The end of day is always time of Thanks, time to choose which will be the record of the day in a symbolic PHOTO and words marking. It is the moment to share with people and also to exalt the good ego. "I love Life" and I try to get it in pictures, and also be present. I apreciate the likes of the unknowns, I leave them the chance to travel trough in my eyes. But I recomend that all should see with their own eyes, they should touch with their our hands and so improve

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I went to work and adventure, I must admit !!" I'm guilty for that ;-). I mixed work and joy to improve them, to link the useful to the pleasant and thus to obtain good results. I played like a Feline, always in the defensive waiting and ready for the instinctive attack, "like the silence that precedes the big bang". When a Lion does not catch a prey, it scratch and leaves marks. He is beautiful and likes the sun. He is the king in the savannah, or in the concrete jungle. A dear friend of my said, ``Cats are also felines, smaller in size but with the same behavior``. I lived with a cat which taught me many lessons throught his contemplation and, like a Lion, leave marks of nails and teeth. I´ll never forget his blue eyes and his positions while slept.​

 

I am grateful to the people there who shared their lives with me for that time. I learned from them. I hit and miss, it's part of the game. I am grateful to the people who have given me this opportunity. I learn from them. I try to always learn, I say try because I often find it difficult to learn specialy when I´m not beeing present in life. And the life concept has changed for me, I try not to define it, so I prefer to leave this concept open or use the word dinamic. I like the idea of planning to be surprised at some point. While the surprising of life cames I keep my improving. Delining my SELF, improving my performance, a performance for a now. And what is a life? Again !! Life is Dynamic, changes at all times and is always a very personal concept.

 

This story is a mix of images and words from a PERSONAL EXPERIENCE that I´d like to share. It's not just about the Algarve, and not just about me. Must go beyond without losing the moment .... #CELEBRATE