April of Freedom
Another 25th of April has passed... For the non-Portuguese, on April, 25th we comemorate the Revolution (1974) that ended the dictatorship that started in 1926, known after 1933 as "Estado Novo" (new state). Why the Carnation on top of the G3 rifle as a simbole? Well, opposite to expected by many people, specially worldwide, the military revolution was made whit very little violence and shots fired. One of the stories told about the carnations is that a flower seller that met one of the military columns in the capital, offered the soldiers its carnations which were putten on the barrels of the G3 rifles and the images of the Revolution are of soldiers with carnations on the rifles and not firing bullets. Anyway this last April, 25th was a Saturday, so decided to go downtown with my wife and daugther for a wallk in the exhibit mounted for the Flower Festival, one of Madeira biggest Touristic Events.... When I got there...Well..must admit that I got really surprise for finding...