Our pets grow up...

Garotinha (Little Girl) when she was 3 months old, between a sprig of lettuce & pennyroyal (poejo).

Garotinha climbs up a banana tree.

Pretinha aka Pitoca when 3 months old.

Pitoca in December 2020.

Pitoca on the roof of her Master's. 

Roses are red, my love...

Branquinha looks with playful eyes to Xmas tree & nativity of 2019.

Branquinha muses about jumping into Tia Lucia's bed in the morning of a December 2019.

Christmas 2019.

Our house's Christmas 2019's Nativity Scene.

Lucas holds Branquinha who was 2 weeks old... in October 2015.

Lucas holds Branquinho & Branquinha...

Ivo Darin's 90th birthday on 6 June 2017

piano teacher of Ivo & Ruth's children...

piano teacher, an old friend of Ivo's who worked with him at Banco do Brasil and then went on to be a Stock Exchange operator; Ivo & Ruth.

all of a sudden there was a hustle-and-bustle to prepare the dining-room for the birthday celebrations...

and there he was: Ivo, the birthday man in front of his birthday cake. 

to be joined soon by his dearly wife Ruth... 

from left to right: Aura, the youngest child, Laercio, Ivo, Gerson, Ruth, Ruthinha, Ivinho, the oldest child &  Leila. 

Ivo's 90th birthday cake... 

Aura, Laercio, Ivo João, Gerson, Ruth de Mello, Ruth Darin, Ivinho & Leila.

Ivo & Ruth's grandchildren...

Myself (Luiz Amorim), the piano teacher, Ivo, Ruth & Aura Salvia Darin.

Myself & João Mangabeira, Aura's husband on his father-in-law's 90th birthday party, on 6 June 2017. 

Finados (Day of the Departed) 2nd November 2020

Me (Luiz Amorim) & my sister Rute make a point of visiting Cemitério das Flores (Cemetery of the flowers) at 29,5 km on Raposo Tavares Highway in Cotia-SP to visit our dearest Mother's grave. 2020 was the year of the Covid 19 Pandemic so we and everyone else sported our masks against the Corona Virus. 

an overall view of Cemitério das Flores in Cotia-SP.

Myself next to a grave with a red and orange potted flowers. 

Rute next to a white azalea bush at the Cemetery. 

Yolanda Darin Amorim *3rd January 1919 +13 February 2006.

Cemetery workers wearing masks watch people coming by... 

a half-way built house inside the Cemetery... 

Dia de Finados (Departed Day) on 2nd November 2019.

Rute looks over the graves on Finados in 2019.

Rute sitting next to our Mother's grave. 

lighting candles in honour of the Departed. 

Luiz Carlos sitting next to the grave of his beloved Mother Yolanda Darin in 2019.

this beautiful bright yellow Golden Trumpet flower growing at Cemitério das Flores reminds me of aunt Nina Darin (Yolanda's sister), who died on 1st October 1972.

Rute early in the morning waiting for the bus to take her to the Cemetery.

Myself waiting for the bus at Avenida Rio Pequeno on 2nd November 2019.

Avenida Rio Pequeno with Rua Francisco Precioso.