sao-miguel-with-an-iphone:Last set of São Miguel sketches: more plants, a final dinner at Maria’s,
sao-miguel-with-an-iphone: Last set of São Miguel sketches: more plants, a final dinner at Maria’s, brief exploration of Ponta Delgada, and one single view of the north coast of the island before we headed to the airport. Vaccinium cylindraceum (native Azorean blueberry), and an unidentified but probably native (and definitely adorable) species of bumblebee. The remains of grilled anchovies on the table at Maria’s the last night we stayed with her. A close-up view of my favorite exotic invasive- the tree-sized deadly nightshade! (Solanum mauritianum) It was what we spotted the Priolo on originally, actually. A very strange and very decrepit old house in what I think was the U district of Ponta Delgada. It had such strange victorian-azorean hybrid architecture, and such great colors and weathering that I had to paint it. A lovely view I painted about an hour before we got on a plane to leave. I could see whales spouting right in that bay as I painted it, because without a continental shelf the water was effectively open ocean as little as 30 yards offshore. -- source link
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