Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Saudade



I can taste the air in the morning – very early in the morning before the sun starts blazing its warmth – when the World is waking up but Nature has been doing its thing for a while already. You walk into the trees in silence, you don’t want to disturb the peace that surrounds you and you reach out to the cherry trees to accept their offering, to collect their gift to you. You taste it and you freeze in that moment of natural perfection when all your senses are working at the same time – you smell the pure air, you see the vast valley below you, you taste the juice of the fruit, you hear the animals getting ready to start their day and you feel… well, you feel alive and you feel life as it should be.

(foto by Agostinho Alexandre)