seen the first snow!

About 2 hours after our walk, it started to drizzle, then rain, then there was thunder and a bit of lightning a long way down south, and when the clouds lifted we saw the first snow over the Contraviesa and the hills above Murtas.

fruit and flowers

Went out this afternoon for our usual walk and noticed that the nispero (medlar) trees were in flower. They have a very strong heady scent and are very attractive to bees and the trees hum for weeks on end as the flowers last so long.

This must be the smallest olive tree around here - about a year or so in the ground - but it has 2 really big olives!

autumn chores

this has been a week of tidying up, repairing a wobbly table top, straightening a chair with crooked legs, weeding, moving firewood from the log store up onto the terrace to be handier for the woodburners, raking leaves and putting into the compost - every day - and finally finishing the last raised bed ready for seeds.

yesterday was quite cool for the time of year and we did begin to wonder if winter was coming early, we had a max. temperature of 12 (shade temp) but not much sun either but today dawned with clear blue skies and a high of 17 (shade) - so hot in the sunshine that i was in summer clothes this afternoon. But again, at sunset it's as if the heating has gone off and it's back to winter wear and woodburners!

look at this sunset....wow!

had totally clear skies today, but just before sunset it went hazy and then more cloud came down from the sierras and as the sun set the sky got more and more colourful and this was the result.

where does the time go?

its been a week since I looked at this, I know the sun is shining and there are things to do outside, but we are indoors from about 6pm or so every evening. Once the sun sets it's as if someone has turned off the heating and we go indoors and light the wood burner in the lounge.

Went out for a walk this afternoon with Monty as normal but took the camera too, it makes me look around more, see what has changed, it's all too easy to take this landscape for granted! Here are a few of the pics I took...pomegranates on a tree, our spring and the deposito (for storing the water for the land) and an orange grove.