Never-ending Views

Monday Morning Photo - Wisteria Time in Andalucia

How quickly spring comes around after the short winter here in the Sierra Sur de Jaén. After lots of very much needed rain we´re back to the normal cloudless blue. My garden is shooting incredbily with the moisture and now sunshine. And my beautiful wisteria flowers grandly albeit it short-lived. The big black carpenter bees love it. Each flowering season reminds me of the Botanical Gardens in Malaga and the ´tunnel´ of wisteria that I haven´t yet caught in bloom. April is a good time to plan to go if it´s on your list. Here´s the botanical garden link La Concepción Botanical Gardens. And a sneaky peak at the wisteria. See the Monday Morning Photos list.

Still very cold but dry and sunny, too wimpy to walk we briefly became "domingueros" or sunday drivers and explored a route never done before. No idea why, just a must-do-one-day lane.

Well yesterday was the day and boy what views. We live in an incredibly varied landscape, always beautiful, yesterday we were stunned. Endless views, rolling on forever, huge white clouds suspended in deep blue skies, 360 degrees, rugged grey outcrops, pink almond blossom and black olives strewn like confetti.

Rolling olive groves merged into steep scrub inclines of the sierras, clear running stream, grazing goats and ancient ruins.