Fishing Boats of Dubai. Across the Creek View from Deira side.

 

Fishing Boats of Dubai. Across the Creek View from Deira side.

Watercolour Rendition on computer from Line Artwork

by Tony Fernandes

'The Fishing Dhows of Deira' - Dubai 1976.

'The Fishing Dhows of Deira' - Dubai 1976.

Line Art Drawing by Tony Fernandes

The Rocking Fifies & Sixties of my youth.

The Rocking Fifties & Sixties of my youth.

Rocking chairs are quite common in most family homes in Goa with their own unique designs and construction by Goan carpenters. It is essentially a varnished standard teak wood chair with its usual feature of a pair of 2 curved pieces attached to the bottom of the legs. The seat and the back rest is cane-strung.

They are made to rock and do not have foldable extensions to rest one's legs on like the Goan 'volter', which has 4 legs firmly on the ground with arm rest extensions that swing out to serve as leg rests. The original Voltaire chair was not a rocking chair and did not have extendable rests.

A single or a couple of these chairs usually complements several other straight-back chairs in the living and family rooms.

VICTORIA DAY

 

Victoria Day (French: Fête de la Reine, lit. 'Celebration of the Queen') is a federal Canadian public holiday observed on the last Monday preceding May 25 to honour Queen Victoria, who is known as the "Mother of Confederation". The holiday has existed in Canada since at least 1845, originally on Victoria's natural birthday, May 24. It falls on the Monday between the 18th and the 24th (inclusive) and, so, is always the penultimate Monday of May (May 18 in 2026 and May 24 in 2027). Victoria Day is a federal statutory holiday, as well as a holiday in six of Canada's ten provinces and all three of its territories. The holiday has always been a distinctly Canadian observance and continues to be celebrated across the country. It is informally considered the start of the summer season in Canada.

Oil Painting

 

Oil painting of 64 years ago.  

Size: 16” x 12” 

by Tony Fernandes.

Year: 1962. Age: 15.

Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima is celebrated annually on May 13 to commemorate the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children in Fátima, Portugal, on May 13, 1917. It is a significant Marian feast in the Catholic Church, focusing on messages of prayer—particularly the Rosary—peace, and reparation for sins.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

 

Cinco de Mayo

 

More April Showers bring more May Flowers

 

April Showers bring May Flowers

 

Come what may....I'm here to stay.