Villa Nueva del Trabuco Fuente de cien caños

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Home 11th May 2021

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Lovely wild flowers from early morning walk.

Las Alpujarras 9th May 2021

Visiting friends in Las Alpujarras

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With friends and how to stop your cat getting on the terrace!

Alcaucin. Saturday 8th of May

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Dramatic mountain scenes from Alcaucin.

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Different types of cistus and a tree bark full of character! My plant app says it’s Arizona cypress but I am not sure. There is euphorbia and thapsia.

Casabermeja walk. 18th April 2021.

It was supposed to be a rainy weekend so I had nothing planned, but it turned out beautiful. Tanya phoned me at 8.30 this morning and said “How about a walk “. So up quick, cold shower (!), and met Tanya and Manuel in Casabermeja at 9.30

https://www.wikiloc.com/hiking-trails/casabermeja-70904116 (Casabermeja) at #wikiloc

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We walk up past the Osborne Bull and into big vistas. Looking over towards Torcal.

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Who put that chair there!

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  Bulbous iris

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  Salsify

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  Corn gladiolus or wild gladiolus

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  Salsify

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  Milk thistle, looking a bit like a green and white giraffe.

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  Avenue of almond trees

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The wild flowers are amazing. If I stopped to take photos of everything the walk would take days.

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More big vistas. Fields of wheat and barley. You can’t get lost, the route is well marked…well you could, I got confused a few times.

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  Toad orgy.

A great walk and not too much up hill.

April 3rd. Walk to Santo Pitar.

A lovely walk of about 8.5 kilometres.

So many wild flowers and I have just downloaded a plant recognition app, so it took us ages! Some of the great views and flowers here.

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The last photo here of the sleeping giant, I took from my neighbours whilst feeding the chickens early morning. Can you see him? He has a wispy cloudy blanket over his legs and a bit on his chest and face.

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Tons of rock roses or cistus. Beautiful colour and such tissue paper petals. The broom is in glorious full flower and scents the air all around with a warm coconut smell. Those catkin like flowers are on the Holm Oak tree.

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Solid yellow broom flowers. It looks like scrambled egg. Beautiful bumble bee on a rock rose. Way in the distance Periana, in the mid ground the circle of white is Comares.

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Graffiti chalked on a rock. “Daniella a heart and a ☆” I thought the rock rose with its heart shaped seed pods went well with the heart on the graffiti. Not sure they are seed pods….but they are heart shaped!

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Pine tree and an ancient cork oak. I think the orchid is ophrys tenthredinifera, but happy to be corrected.

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Mullein.
Distant view of the sea.

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The top of the hill. The reason I am able to send my walks all round the 🌎. There are many masts up there which creates a bit of an eerie feeling for me.

April 2nd…I think. Happy Easter.

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Looking after a friends chickens today. 4 lovely fresh eggs, plus one with a soft shell!

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Great view from up the hill above me, and down onto Los Hijanos, the next village along. A walk home, then breakfast of soft boiled, fresh egg and marmite soldiers.

March 28th. Concepcion Gardens Malaga

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Plane tree and giant bamboo. Arched avenue of Plane trees.

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Tropical garden

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The impressive Wisteria gazebo

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Water and waterfalls.

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Vibrant colours

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Cacti and succulents

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Tiles form information notices. The impressive cupola.

27th March. Llano Almendra

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Knapweed and poppy

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No re wilding here. Quite the opposite. Land cleared for planting 🥑. They take up so much of our already depleted water supply. I am told the wild bit in the middle belongs to a family member who wont let it go for planting!

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The beautiful Algarrobo tree. We get the carob pods from these trees. The original manna from heaven.

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I can’t find the name for this little lilac flower. Any ideas? The other is winged sea lavender.

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Bell tower with no bell in the church, which is now a house, in Los Hijanos. One of my favourite things to take photo’s of, doors and their furniture!

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Fun bin

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First fruits of the season, nisperos.I like the textures in this wall.

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Mignonette, and is the yellow flower a hawkweed oxtongue. Castor oil plant.

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Dutch mans pipe.

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Tamarisk

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Cut Caña in neat stacks ready for the tomato and bean agricultural fields in Zafarraya.

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Home again and Chirimoya (custard apple for breakfast).