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Encina (holm oak), Canchos Largo y Gordo. And granite, granite and more granite! Look closely at the oak. It has been lopped. This is a 'managed' wild landscape! It is also my favourite walking country.

Purpose-built 1980s park in northeast Madrid (but then I suppose that ALL parks are 'purpose-built'), full of grandiose metallic sculptures and broad vistas much beloved of surfboarders and roller skaters (I'm not 100% certain of the vocabulary here as maybe one of these activities is related to water rather than land?? I'm floundering as neither activity interests me in the slightest!) and whatever is fashionable in such circles these days.

Covering the hillsides in late April and May. Central and southern Spain and Portugal.

Back in 2013, for a few months, I lived in a high-rise block and used to wake up to terrific sunrises!

Towanroath Pumping Engine House, Wheal Coates tin mine, Chapel Porth.

Algete, Madrid province, poppy field. May 2015. Upload feature now up and running again so this may be the last of my 'spring revisited' series for the time-being. (Or maybe not! Time will tell!).

Old door and window. Maderuelo, Segovia Province. Night shot.

Outer Harbour, Portreath. This was great! I escaped for half an hour at the coast this evening and as it was very windy in St Day I thought conditions might be interesting on the coast. Serendipity it was't as I guessed this scene was a possibility. There are a few more shots from here to come.

Rodochiton in my Mum's garden, Saint Day, Cornwall. Originally poted in August 2017.

There is a logical explanation for this sculpture which was noted on my Pano upload of this shot but which was stolen by Google and I can't now remember what it is! Anyway I find the effect quite surreal!

It's such a striking plant that I don't feel three uploads is overkill!

Spring Greens! From the Roman road near El Escorial.

Rock window (perhaps hopefully onto a brighter future for us all?). The way I took (not a path at all really) went under this rock. Very common to have a giant boulder wedged over a gully in granite country! Granite forms on Pena del Tejo, a little to one side of La Sierra de La Cabrera proper but terrific scrambling territory in its own right. Indeed I spent a whole day here, intending to move on to the main ridge but finding a day's worth of interest at this place, including the mountain stream close-ups I sometimes post. photo taken 2012 and first posted on ipernity in 2017.

Another shot from this local park and its ancient olive trees.

View across to El Pico de La Miel, past the Convento Monasterio de San Julian y San Antonio.

South West Peninsula Coast Path, Cornwall

Calle de Barquillo. The white building at the end of the street is the Banco de Espana. Not much time left: www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/ipernity-members-association-a-non-profit-entity/x/16256307

Situated high above the village of Carn Brae and the towns of Redruth and Camborne, originally a 15th century hunting lodge.