a break in the treats

Let's have a little break on candies, shall we?

I don't know about you but I cannot live without fruit and vegetables. I need its freshness, its smell, its color...

Every time I go to the grocery I realize that the majority of the fruit and vegetables come from California state. So, back in San Francisco I went to a farmer's market: It was Heaven!! A-ma-zing! Check for yourself ;)

treat number 2

A good bowl of cereals and milk is still my favorite breakfast. Clusters (of Nestlè) with cold milk, or even Corn Flakes with warm milk and a touch of coffee powder. oh yes! Oh, by the way, here the cereals taste quite different, because of the amount of sugar. More, they don't know how delicious Chocapic, Clusters or even Nestum are.

Another mental exercise for you: imagine the awesomeness of the Rice Krispie cereal mixed with peanut butter and marshmallows to glue them :) Double Yes! (I'm turning very American, don’t you think?)

treat number 1

Everything about caramel popcorn! Please, grab everything that you have on your pantry and just caramel it ;) if you are portuguese, I don't think you´ll have these things on your pantry but just try to mix some sweets and salty and have fun! You'll surely impress your friends and yourself! enjoy! :)

August quote

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Julai :)

July was amazing but something tells me that August is going to be f***ing amazing! ;)

I'm off for vacations next weeks but keep visiting soblushed blog because I have some nice posts just  for you. In the mean time, check the posts from July.

July's quote

THE orange golden gate

4th of July means: fiiireworks!!!

Apple-Cranberry cobbler

The oldest Chinatown

details SF

RVA at night

Enchanted Muir Woods

@micro lab
|soblushed| at the river

|soblushed| at the river

I’m not a beach person, as some may know (although my hometown is 15min by car) but living in a city that is far from one is painful, specially in the summer! I really miss the sea but I've got here the James River, my perfect place for long walks, landscape seeing...and ice cream eating ahahahah (There is always a cart of water-based ice cream called soul ice). It is definitely a top 5 Richmond’s sightseeing. Love it!

@micro lab

Probably you already know that I'm a researcher and I work in a microbiology lab, right? You don't? Do you want to know my story? ahah

So, after my Masters in Biomedical Engineering (Universidade do Minho) in Portugal, my PI offered me this opportunity: to do a phD here in US, more specifically Richmond, Virginia. I said: why not? It's now or never! I arrived on October 2010 and so far it has been a great adventure! I still have about 10 months here, and then I have to go back to Braga and finish my experiments and writing the thesis there.

This might sound chinese for you but basically I'm studying the mobilization of pathogenicity islands in Staphylococcus aureus by helper phages. Please, let me rephrase. Staphylococcus aureus are "goodfellas" and our body needs them but sometimes they are opportunistic. Worst: staph are smarter than us; they have a few ways to replicate themselves and spread virulence! Till now, the antibiotics are failing like crazy...  Is it the end of the world?

In the mean time, I'll share with you some photos at my lab.

Enchanted Muir Woods

For the ones who like to dream, who often feel inspired by the nature.. this is your post!

Back in San Francisco, I went to the Muir Woods, a national park full of Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). This species includes the tallest trees on Earth, reaching up to 115m of height (without the roots) and up to 7m in diameter. The redwoods in this National Park are between 500 and 800 years old...and the oldest one is at least 1 200 years old!! The most amazing fact is that the seeds from those trees are no bigger than tomatoes.

Now, take a deep of breath and enjoy*

RVA at night

Hey everyone!

I hope you had a good weekend!! 

I told you about the crazy weather here right? Sunny and beautiful skies, hot and humid as hell... and then: thunderstorms, rain and everything that you can imagine. I'm still not used to this, bah!  So after riding my bike on saturday when the skies decided to pour (actually is good to feel the rain in your body when the temperature is super high), I decided to stay at home on Sunday. lol And the plans of doing some shooting outdoors with my photography mates tu ru ru was postponed for the next one.

Until then, I leave you with some pictures of Richmond at night.

details SF

 Some details from SF. What can I say?