Andalusian Landscapes

It's been raining here like crazy. The temperature has dropped to the 60s and Gisela doesn't think that there will be any more hot days here for the rest of the year, although weather.com indicated that it'll warm up a bit next week.

Here's what the area around Casa Mantecote used to look like before it was cloudy and green all of the time:

Snails are abundant here. They climb on everything, even the most scratchy-looking plants. There are FIELDS of these scary plants caked with snails all around Casa Mantecote.

Zoomed-in view of the snails.

Zoomed-in view of a scary weed.

The fields are all so varied. All in a row there are fields for grazing cattle or goats, fields of dry sunflowers, fields of snails on scary weeds (as mentioned above), and fields of wind turbines. This is the first time I’ve been annoyed with wind turbines destructing the view, because here they are clustered very close together and often hide the white villages I love so much.

Gisela and Balti at a Costa de la Luz beach near where we live. We didn’t get a good picture of Africa, but it was visible from there. Africa is everywhere!

This is Pepe. He is not a landscape, but he deserves mention because he comes to Casa Mantecote 6 days a week to tend the garden (from what we can tell, that’s pretty much only tomatoes and peppers).  Here he is pealing the fruits of a prickly pear from the wild cacti around the area. They are delicious!