Friday, February 7, 2014

Explorando o Sul de Minas - Exploring the South of Minas

Imagens




"Come out, look back, and then you will see: this astonishing cataract of bears, babies,and bananas; this immoderate deluge of atoms, orchids, oranges, cancers, fleas, gases, tornadoes and toads. How could you ever have thought this was the ultimate reality? How could you ever have thought that it was merely a stage-set for the moral drama of men and women? She is herself. Offer her neither worship nor contempt. Meet her and know her. If we are immortal, and if she is doomed (as scientists tell us) to run down and die, we shall miss this half-shy and half-flamboyant creature, this ogress, this incorrigible fairy - - -

But the theologians tell us that she, like ourselves, is to be redeemed. The ‘vanity’ to which she was subjected was her disease, not her essence … We shall still be able to recognize our old enemy, friend, playfellow and foster mother, so perfected as to be not less, but more, herself. And that will be a merry meeting." CSL

Old Railway Track



Bananas

Coffee Plantaions



 Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana da Região - 1908







Old Railway Station  - Pedrão - Maria da Fé



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