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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.
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Another Black Bull for my Collection

Another Black Bull spotted and photographed. I really don´t know the why the compulsion to get the camera out but there is just some draw to those massive guys that make me yell "ssstop".

Unless I´m driving of course, then it´s "What are you doing?" from any other occupants. Yep I´m a pain, best to escape on my own really.

Black Bull, Almayate to Torre del Mar
Black Bull between Almayate and Torre del Mar


Did you know there are twenty Black Bulls in Andalucia? And that three of them have become national monuments? The other seventeen are in the process of being registered.

The 13,13 metres tall signs were put up between 1958 and the late 70s, when the government banned advertising on national roads in the 1990s they were to be taken down. So but for the huge national protest they would no longer adorn our roadsides. And I would be not the wiser and have less things to spot and snap.


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