Saturday, a Canadian cold front hit us… It was here the whole weekend, taking away all the spring fascination Houstonians were enjoying.

We went to a health fair, upon getting there it was all being dismantled, because people, did not want to leave home.
The Health Fair is where the biggest and newest advances in technology in the medical field would have been shown.
As we are in spring, the event was planned in a beautiful park under a pavilion. Total failure.

My computer needed some adjustments and we were close to the electronics store that Mr. Slipper Socks Man always goes to… Ok, let’s go.

Bleargghs … I’ll tire of this soon. I’m staying in the car studying for my exam.
I changed my mind.

Why stay in the car? Inside stores they always have chairs or benches to sit on and I can study in there.

We went in under the rain. I was expecting a store full of boring nonsense, those who are not all that smart, just think they are.
But…

Whoo Hoo…!

Woa! How cool !!

You think I went to visit NASA?

But in the entrance there was a sign saying TAKING PICTURES PROHIBITED.   Sniff…Sniff…

Unsatisfied with the great problem I asked the man at the door: “I can take just one picture? Just here in the entry?”

“You can take pictures of all the cool stuff, but not the merchandise.”

Hammm…It has more cool stuff?

Yes, you can take pictures of it all.

Girl get going!
They had 4 astronauts, but you won’t be able to stand seeing all of them.

How intelligent. The more you have fun, the more you spend.

Restaurant inside the store.

The children can have any kind of poison to the teeth at the entrance.

The entrance to the real party for adults. Buy all kinds of electronics.

From here you can see 3 astronauts. Can you?

I was going to enter when Mr.Slipper Socks Man that is always this store said, “no no you can get there, it’s only for employees!”

No one holds me back. Sorry.

Look at him afterwards, inside where “you could not enter”.

Giving me all the time for more photos.

Can you see the flag of Brazil?

Below, more than 30 employees at registers waiting for you to pay.

Office furniture, you buy here also.

Candy, more Candy and more Candy.

You can purchase all electronic, electrical, domestic, my beloved slaves Roombas, parts for them. But I can not take pictures of robots.

Crackers, chocolate, bread, cookies. No one starves here, and you can go on spending and spending… then you will still give that mixer to your mother-in-law? There are all kinds of wrapping paper, pretty ribbons, cards for all occasions…

Didn’t I say said it was like a box of chocolates? You never know what’s inside.

Mr. Slipper Socks Man had never seen it all.

So much hardware, software, wires for this and that. Useless things, so that only give you all the answers, which have much memory, but do not have imagination.

I wish my mouth had a backspace key.

Now tell me, the winter doesn’t die in the spring, and is reborn in the fall…?

Well, in my corner of the world it revived, while we were enjoying the Spring!

Forcing me to: close the doors and windows again, turn on the central heating, light the fireplace, eat warm food, have hot chocolate and stay warm, stay inside during the weekend !

I wonder if I have returned to that season in which I find nothing to do outside the nest, but instead ample time to ponder.

Not for long…

My ‘professional’ beggar dogs, know how to get me out of this kind of stagnation on cold days.

Five degrees centigrade by the end of March?!

What…?Urghhhsss….

But it’s better to face the street with this cold than their eyes! After all, these dogs must have a mission: to help improve my quality of life.

Someone once said, “Each mile in winter, is two. I agree..

What you will see then was not PURE PLEASURE, but my heart was drunk with such beauty !

You could build another house after the lawn! I’ve never seen the tide sooo low! And that dark cloud?

MORE cold, the neighbor said…

Yes, because five minutes ago, was like this:

It was like I was watching all this for the first time. And indeed it was.

Divine nature.

Everything changes so quickly, especially at the end of the day.

The last rays of sun struck the happy seagulls and they were: white and orange, white and orange… But I could not get a photo of them, they were very quick, agitated and excited.

The colors of winter.

I do not agree with the one who said, “the most beautiful things in this world are useless”

First they are a gift from God…

Second, they wash my soul.

When I stepped out the front door, I swear I thought, ‘maybe I’ll see something different, in the path I  almost always take’.

But how?

In what way?

Go out looking for something… and you will find it.

I turned the optimism that made me freeze, into truth.

Anywhere is a paradise, it all depends on us.

Confucius said: “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it“.

What we have had here in Houston, since 1922, is a clinic that serves everyone who does not have Health Insurance.

For the uninsured medical assistance is almost non-existent and this Clinic is part of the UNITED WAY (love the United Way!) and the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, with the first class service.

If you are in this area and need a physician, click below:

Did you click San Jose Clinic? See the charming old house where they attended people in the beginning and the building that will be inaugurated tomorrow (3/20/2010) and you can go visit and see. Click on “News & Events”.

Se voce recebe anualmente duas vezes, ou menos, do que o Governo Federal considera nivel de pobreza, pode ser atendido la’.

Beautiful sunsets do not happen every day, but when they arrive… Wow! You can bet that I’ll stop anything, and I’m right there taking pictures.

I assure you that Bill Gates has not had a sunset like this one today.

To get there I had to go through this…

Isn’t it wonderful?

You can fall in love with a place or a person.

Look at this.

Some places speak to you, very distinctly.

This says to me: healthy solitude.

And for certain, with such pretty a name, solitude never hurt anyone.

Never be afraid to stop, sit down and think.

Give wings to your stress and let it fly. No one can have peace of mind jumping around.

The plain truth is that no matter where you go or what you do, your whole life is confined within your own head.

The symbol of our city. The closer I got the more sound they make.

Every step I took seemed that the excitement was greater and greater! What would the name be for the sound they make? I have no idea…

You catch some good ideas sitting, daydreaming… Getting bored too. The great secret is perceiving it. That is what’s difficult.

A thousand times what I’m seeing, than daydreaming automated on TV.

It’s so hard to leave places like this.

I’ve never found so a great companion, so ‘acompaniable’ as solitude.