Montenegro's water.

As some of you know, our water supply is snow-melt and rain from the Sierras, which slowly filters down through the rocks and pops out at the fuente here. Normally there is no sign of water until you go to the fuente, and once there you can here the water gurgling inside the rocks. But today there is a waterfall up in the hills above, you can see it in 2 places - if you click to enlarge the photo, it is top/centre and shows more obviously left of Pepe and Miguel's house. I went nearer to the fuente as well this afternoon on a walk with Monty, and could hear the water cascading. I didn't go too close as I'm not sure where it's going! We think it goes straight down to the river in the valley behind us, we can hear that too from up here today.

Another consequence of this rain is that the land is sodden, most of our olives are supported by dry-stone walls as they are planted on edges of terraces, but one is not and this morning John noticed that the soil supporting the tree had started collapsing and undermined the roots! We had already cut a lot of the outer branches off as most of the weight was outside, we spent a wet few hours cutting the tree down to a stump so if it does collapse it won't so bad. When we have a dry day, we plan to build a more sloping bank, and put lots of plants in to hold it firm. A by-product of this is of course more firewood - for next year though.