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Some years ago in January, I watched this beautiful animal in the Sierra de Andújar, Andalucia with the mobile stuck on a friend’s telescope. She was sitting, watching us, unimpressed, about 250 metres away. The next day another Iberian lynx, a male, crossed 100 metres from where we stood before vanishing into the scrub. Enchanted … Read More “Iberian lynx in Andújar” »
El Greco”s mesmerising and dramatic View of Toledo. ~1600. I love the threatening clouds, the hills seem about to swallow the town or perhaps slide into the Tajo below. This is one of the earliest examples of a landscape painting though not a true topographical representation.
Wildflowers ablaze one spring on the slopes near where George Orwell fought with the POUM militia in the Sierra de Alcubierre.
Abandoned train line. San Esteban de Gormaz, Soria in August heat several years ago. 1000s of kilometres of lines were lost in the 20th century, Many are now idllyic cycling and walking routes but others like this in 1995, closed. A symbol of la España Vacía/da (Empty/ied Spain) as the tragedy of the depopulating hinterland … Read More “Abandoned train line” »
