I think of the many #wildflowers here, the welcome return of the blue swathes of the Globularia (Globularia alypum L.) is my favourite. A medicinal #plant that is said to possess many healing properties, including the of treatment of rheumatism, typhoid, fever & diabetes...
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A brief afternoon shower [1mm] seems to be bringing down the last of the almond flowers…
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After a bit of a foggy start, it turned out to be quite a nice day for a change…
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Good job I filled up the car last week, as petrol prices have risen by 12.21% here since last week, even though I reckon the fuel company bought this stock yonks ago. Good old Trump, with his illegal wars…
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#IranWar #Petrol
Another 11mm of rainfall across the day after 20mm overnight is certainly helping the landscape look vibrant again…
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#photography #weather #landscape
Looks like the Saharan dust cloud has moved north now as clear #rain is falling, so today’s 22mm of rainfall (so far!) can be harvested…
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Cloud hangs onto the hillside following 14mm of rain filled with Saharan dust. It’s a shame not to be harvesting this much water, but it’s better off not contaminating our current supplies…
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#photography #weather #landscape
With rain imminent it seemed like a good day to plant some more #Carobs. These have been establishing for three years in pots, so hopefully they’ll be strong enough to survive the heat of summer; and obviously any of the animals that generally tend to assault them on our top terrace…
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Nice end to a long and overcast day doing more tree work. This is me (weather permitting) pretty much until May. 2mm of overnight rain, with a storm forecast from Thursday…
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#photography #olives #oliveoil
A surprisingly cold and gloomy one for pruning the olives today, but at least I’ve made a temporary resting spot for the chainsaw…
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#photography #olives #oliveoil
Nice day for it! Glad we shut the windows…
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#Olives #photography
Looks like we’re in for a few dreary days then…
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#photography #weather #landscape
A bit of a gloomy start across the ’boro…
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As diurnals ranged from a high of 19.8°C to a low of 5.3°C today, there’s still a need to keep feeding the fire on a nighttime…
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#photography #weather #spain
Marking up a few of last year’s grafts that didn’t quite make it through the summer. I’m still pleased with the success rate of the rest, and fortunately I have some new replacements at the ready…
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#photography #grafting #vineyard
Nice afternoon for a bit of tractoring…
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#photography #farming #vineyard
I grafted a #Syrah bud onto this Mourvèdre trunk a couple of years ago, and now it’s time to remove the #Mourvèdre section. I might do the one behind it too, as I much prefer growing Syrah, but I do like having one in the collection…
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#photography #wine
Having been trapped in drought for the past few years, pruning cuts on the vines have remained dry and pale, but with substantial rainfall over the past year a little normality has returned with the sap flowing from the cuts…
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#Syrah #wine #photography
A lovely sunny and wind free afternoon for a birthday barbecue of Calçots…
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#photography #calçots #calçotada
Nice to be enjoying a bit of pruning work in the vineyard before heading back to doing the olive trees…
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#photography #syrah #vineyard
Another blustery day amongst the almond trees, but at least we’re in for a couple of calmer days over the weekend…
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#photography #weather #spain
Quite surprised to see a little smattering of mist early this morning…
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Almonds are flowering nicely this year; I hope the gales don’t throw a spanner in the works…
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We’ve had a good run of regular wet weather, with 119mm of rainfall in January and a further 27mm so far this month, but with stable dry conditions for the foreseeable future this could be it. A sunny 19°C coupled with strong winds is already drying out the soils’ surface…
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#photography #weather
So it turns out, our budget plastic greenhouse wasn’t gale force wind proof…
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#weather #spain
As someone who lives off-grid with my own renewable energy system, surrounded by renewable energy sources, yes!
They’re on for 98% of the time, and when they’re not then the solar panel farms are still harvesting clean energy; so there’s that.
An incredibly windy day here today, so much so that all the surrounding wind farms were “turned off”…
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#photography #landscape
Apparently the last of the weather fronts has pushed through today, which left behind a further 11mm of rain. Went for a little walk around the ’hood after the worst of it…
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#photography #landscape
Thank you! 🙌
