#reblogging my travel blog

sao-miguel-with-an-iphone:

Part 2/3 of my Azores sketchbook: midweek, the accidental mountain climb, and botany fun.

1. The bridge leading into the center of town in Povoação
2. A waterfall in a gorge above the town of Faial da Terra, in a rare patch of native laurel forest
3. Quick drawing of the venation on a leaflet of a Rooting Chainfern (Woodwardia radicans), and an example Solanaceae flower to use as a watercolor technique demonstration for my mother.
4. And a panoramic painting of the view down from about 3/4s of the way up to the highest point on São Miguel, Pico da Vara, shortly after we spotted the (very) endangered Priolo.