Hotel Sonata de Iracema Fortaleza

The Atlantic Ocean seams greener than the pacific. .. With fluffy clouds even when it is clear and hot over the land and a breeze that pushes huge sailboats along the horizon. There is a soccer field on the beach directly out my hotel window. . . Where one group of men after another play from sun up until midnight . . . even when it is pouring rain. The other night they finished up about midnight after playing in a down poor for almost 2 hours . . . when they were done they stood and looked u...

Funny the things you remember all your life. Where I am staying is just North of the Port of Fortaleza. Pretty much straight, out in the water of the Atlantic Ocean, from my hotel, the barges "stage" and wait for their turn at port. One in particular came in at night . . . I am not sure what the deal is but it has 3 very tall mast and lit like a Christmas tree coming into port it looked more like one of the tall ships . . . a pirate ship. When I was 15 or so when you could still take choir in...

What do you think . .I am now on the outside, looking in for a change! This is the hotel window that most of the previous photos were taken from. Haven gotten permission from the doctor .. . I got out and about today .. . went to the beach and picked up some sea shells . .. I spread them out on the desk to dry this afternoon . ..and this evening noticed that one of my shells was moving around! I put it in a dish of water to put back out on the beach tomorrow. Later in the day I watched the su...

Never occurred to me that the whole world celebrates Mothers Day. I was surprised when house keeping knocked on the door and gave me this beautiful and unusual flower. Later in the day the front desk gave me a red rose. Jackie

The last morning I was in Fortaleza I managed to walk out on the jetty that I had been looking out on for almost a month. From my room it looked like a man made walk of rocks. Once I got down there the wild flowers were thick and there were little lizards everywhere. There were wild morning glorys in both pink and purple. A flower that looked like a yellow and orange lupine. Sensitive plants whoes leaves snapped shut when you touched them. Little birds flitting around trying to draw you away ...