Granite scenery

WIldflowers in the Cerro de La Cabeza, Sierra de La Cabrera.

Granite and holm oak. Canchos Largo and Gordo seen here as well as the Conventonto Ministerio de San Julian y San Antonio. An oldie for sure and posted before too. This was taken on a bitterly cold winter's day!

Squeezing through here saved a few minutes!

Granite and typical Sierra de La Cabrara.

I may well have posted this on Pano and on ip before but as I took so many shots like this, if it's a new or an old one, I don't think it matters all that much!.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial from the Herrería Woods in winter light.

Sierra de La Cabrera.

The Embalse (reservoir) de Atazar can be seen as well as El Pico de La Miel on the right.

La Sierra de La Cabrera in La Sierra de Guadarrama. Granite country in the foreground but Mondalindo isn't granite. Not sure what though. I must investigate.

Between El Escorial and Zarzalejo, Madrid Province. A very mild January day.

La Sierra de La Cabrera. I enjoyed my Canon digital which a kind Pano member sent to me after I dropped my beloved Nokia N95 in a bog in Cornwall. Sadly it gave up accepting charge from any charger after about 9 months. Many of my best countryside, night and sunrise / sunset shots were taken with it. I still have it and will find a Canon service centre to get it fixed when I can summon up the spondooliks! Shot taken in late September but in both 2011 and 2012, I distinctly recall that summer lasted well into November!

The village of Bustarviejo has a fleeting glimpe of the sun here!

Sierra de La Cabrera, below the Torres de Cancho Largo.

Typical ganite scenery here, with the ubiquitous Springtime cistus.

I'm fond of this rock, as you will have gathered by now. It even has its own album!

Sierra de La Cabrera on a foggy day in December, 2011. Today would have been the same, blanket fog throughout central Spain with only the mountain peaks peeping through. I was tempted when I heard the forecast last night but I just had too much to do today, even though it was a public holiday!

Sierra de La Cabrera and the Lozoya Valley

Pico de La Miel and the Lozoya Valley. A snow free and very mild January day. Later it became shirtsleeves weather!