March 2023
Apricot blossom
Apple blossom
August 2022
We have been harvesting figs for weeks now. There are only so many you can eat, so we gave quite a few to a local restaurant, who make fig jam with them. And we have been drying the rest in our dehydrator. It works really well and the result is scrumptious.
We also dried the remainder of last year’s almond harvest. Early next month we should harvest this year’s batch.
The patio needed a trim:
July 2022
Our neighbour uses two of our fields to grow crops for his sheep. This year it was barley. Last week they used a combine harvester to get the good stuff, this week they are making bales of the straw that was left, for the stables.
Midsummer and swimming at night is hardly an exception. The pool light plays mysteriously on the trees:
Our dear neighbour gave us some yucca cuttings. We planted them in pots and they’ll sit under the grape so they are a little protected while they root. Then, we plan to move them up to the balcony this autumn.
June 2022
May 2022
We had never seen ’our’ valley and our grounds this green, courtesy of the weeks of rain in March and April:
Painting Ingrid’s house
March 2022
The most rain in March since 1927 it turned the ’rambla’ in front of our house into a raging river:
Driving thru the mountains
Wind turbines on our way home from Velez Rubio for the annual MOT/ITV/SMOG/APK check
15 – 20 eagles flying overhead:
Flowers, sheep, peaches:
Twice a day they walk by…
The cats first day outside, off the porch.
