Central Spain

In need of a little TLC perhaps!

We are on a small hill and this is a prominent (recently built) landmark. It houses the admin offices of the local community.

Parque de Santander, Madrid. My local park until recently.

The tall and thin sculpture to the right of the shot is called, irreverently, the Hypodermic Needle.

View from dining room window

Bright light but perishing cold today.

A cold but good day scrambling and walking in the Sierra de La Cabrera. The Torre de Valdemanco is the spire upper left. More visible from some angles than from others. Apparently it is possibe to scramble up it without a rope but I didn't fancy it, especially as the rock was very icy!

A street in Algete just before the big freeze this winter.

The town where I now live with my sister and her family. First posted on ipernity in 2018 and these were my notes at the time: I Googled 'Algete Church' to get the church's name and found this photo a little way in! I must have put it on Pano and forgot! I had thought this was it's first outing!

A very hot day. A view of the less frequented easten side of the range. The western and southers sides are thronged with day-trippers from Madrid.

A little further along the coast than the previousy posted erosion shot.

Couldn't resist showing another from the summer. I haven't been past there in a few months so don't know how work is progressing.

We live on top of a hill near this crenellated house which acts as the admin centre for the local estate or 'urbanización' in Spanish. I like to think of it as a Moorish lookout tower (they do exist near here), but of course it's not, and is of fairly recent construction.

Parque Juan Carlos I, Madrid. Spring Revisited no 10.

Known as jara, locally. It dominates the hillsides of Central Spain and Portugal in April and May. Spring revisited no 9.

Sierra de La Cabrera, Madrid province. * I used to call this 'Spanish' lavender but at the insistence of Isabel I am now (correctly I'm sure!) calling it 'Iberian' lavender, as it is also found in Portugal! This variety is known as Cantueso and used to be thought of as the same as Provencal wild lavender but DNA profiling shows it is not the same. The top two 'petals' are in fact modified leaves. Shot taken in 2013 and first shown on ipernity in 2017.

Spring revisited no 7. H. A. N. W. E. everyone!

Belated Festive Greetings!