Wonderful colours of autumn

I know that every year is different,  to quote the locals  there is  either too much sun or rain or wind,  but while we wait for the autumn rains and winds we have this.....

The colour of the leaves against the clear blue sky is beautiful....

Sweet chestnut

Pear tree

Pomegranate

Peach tree

Mulberry tree

And for breakfast we have had what is possibly the last crop of this years strawberries plus some pomegranates that we picked before they split.  After they split, the birds get inside them and peck out the fruit and seeds.

Colours of the land

Even after 14 years here, I'm still amazed by the colours of the land and plants,  considering that this is a very hot dry part of Spain.  There are always plants with colour, those that don't shed their leaves, such as the rosemary and the olive trees, the wild thyme, the list goes on.  But also, there are a lot of colours that come from the land itself, the rocks that give wonderful scenery.  Colours ranging from dark grey to terracotta,  from dull to shiny,

No words really necessary in these photos

layers of grey with a hint of red

a nearby dry stone wall

and a slowly collapsing almond above the wall

grey rock above the red

shiny stones washed down a stream

over a metre tall,  fallen from way up high

silvery shiny rocks

grey again above terracotta soil