Nature Photos

Some recent photos of flora & fauna.

Seaside Photos

Spanish Fauna

A photo of some sort of grasshopper, I think it may be a locust.

There were quite a few of them, but this one was the only one that wasn't camera shy.

The pigeons and gulls on the other hand didn't have a care in the world and the pigeons in particular would fly right up to you and land a few feet away in the hope that you'd feed them.

Coffee

Coffee is one of the four major food groups, have you been getting enough?

Puerto de Mazarrón - Sunday Market

Every Sunday there is a large, very busy market in Puerto de Mazarrón, it isn't easy to find if you don't know where it is, but once there it is the hub of activity on a Sunday morning.

There are numerous stalls selling fresh, locally grown fruit and vegetables, local meat products and lot of textile and leather stalls. Between these there are a few jewellery stalls selling trinkets made from sea shells, semiprecious stones, regular polished stones and some metal (they said it was silver, I wasn't convinced).











Legs stall! Almost. There were quite a lot of stalls selling stockings, they must be popular in this part of Spain.



Heavy Metal Tee-shirts. Not locally produced I don't think, but they were selling quite a lot of them, so maybe it is a popular music genre in this region.





I didn't think anyone still used these, but they were selling music on cassette tapes!

Lorca Castle / Fortaleza del Sol

Fortaleza del Sol (the fortress of the sun) is a fortress of Arabic origin which dominates the whole city of Lorca. It dates back to the 13th century, and sits on the top of a large hill.





The Spanish seem to have a different view of conservation than we do in the UK, they repair their ruins without too much effort to hide the repairs. This does have the benefit of allowing you to clearly identify the old from the new, but does somewhat ruin the ambiance of the ruin.









Unfortunately it was very overcast on the day I visited it, but there was a hint of blue sky when I was leaving.

Water

Flowers at Hampton Court Flower Show 2008

A few photographs (mostly of flowers) that I took at the Hampton Court Flower Show a few Sundays ago.