On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 8.0

[Theatregal]

July 26, 2013. After Oviedo. An overcast day, beginning the Primitivo.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

If you consider that I was searching by memory that's not too bad. I also took a photo of that hut in winter during my camino years but can not find it.
Carpe diem.

Not bad. I was relying on my memory too but since you had probably seen the building a dozen times to my one I had to check. I appreciate your comments.

You were a contributor to a thread on Romanesque architecture for beginners. I just posted something there based on my search for the hut. Since you may not be still watching the thread you can see my post at

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/romanesque-architecture-for-beginners.68886/page-2#post-992423

 

[FourSeasons]

del Norte July 17, 2019 Here’s my contribution to the flower theme with a little bee butt just for fun.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Flowers and trail

San Nicolás del Real Camino, CF, June 2019.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Portos
sculpture

photo taken December 4, 2013



No flowers but a frosty garden where this giant insectile sculpture marks the entrance of the A paso de Forimiga albergue located on the CF in Portos east of Palas de Rei.

 

[SabsP]

Armiñon on the Vasco Interior.

La Puebla de Arganzón - Miranda de Ebro | Recorrido | Camino Vasco del Interior | Gronze.com

Recorrido y Cultura de la etapa La Puebla de Arganzón - Miranda de Ebro de la Camino Vasco del Interior en el Camino de Santiago: Pueblos y ciudades, notas sobre el recorrido, monumentos, paisajes

www.gronze.com

 

[DoughnutANZ]

In keeping with the sculpture theme

Palacio de Cristal
Madrid
July, 2019

Checking out Madrid for a couple of days before flying home. A pilgrim tying their shoe laces.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Well we think we have been through all our Caminos at least twice since these threads started last year! But going through each Camino is the only way we can keep track of what we have probably already posted!! So today we are heading back to the Norte from 2018!! Enjoy!!
The 16thC, Santuario de Guadalupe, 4.8kms after leaving Irun. Camino del Norte, April, 2018.

 

[VNwalking]

Flowers and trail

The broom is so fragrant, so June.
It was everywhere on the last half of the Invierno.
Here's some that found its way to the top of the mojon near where the Invierno meets the Sanabres in A Laxe.
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[Rowena]

Backtracking today, all the way back to Villamayor de Monjardin for this flower photo.
CF, September 21, 2015

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Sculpture and flowers, a memorial just before entering Sangüesa on the Aragonese.

 

[Chenahusky]

Rifugio Gaucelmo, Rabanal. A place of peace and a warm welcome. Also tea and biscuits at 1500hrs.
CF June 2016.

 

[Phoenix]

Between Burguete and Espinal.

Roncesvalles --> Zubiri
CF, 4 Sept 2018

 

[Corned Beef]

Escargot, Seville. Just add garlic butter.

 

[FourSeasons]

Escargot, Seville. Just add garlic butter.

Gotta catch ‘em first. Careful, they’re sly little buggers. del Norte July 18, 2019 just past Islares.

 

[Theatregal]

Invierno. June 11, 2019. After O Barco de Valdeorras, there was a stretch along the road with different shrubs - thistles, sorrel and long grasses. There was a huge number of snails, nestled together in groups, attached to blades of grass, and perched on thistle blossoms. This one was making eye contact - sort of

 

[Caminogoat]

I regret to tell you where I saw your lovely snails. again. Cordova, 2018.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Puente La Reina

photo taken February 2, 2009



As I was walking west one very cold February morning this was the view on calle Mayor aka the CF looking towards the distant bridge. To the right, topped with an urn, is the gate of the Iglesia de Santiago.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

A Sabine picture except taken by me.
November on the Aragonese near Arres.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Summit of Mount Jaizkibel, 547m. Between Irun and Pasajes de San Juan. Amazing views all around. Camino del Norte, April, 2018.

 

[SabsP]

I name this picture " Afterparty " Vitoria/Gasteiz on the Vasco Interior 2019.
Which fiesta it was I don't know.
8.45 and leaving for that day.
A short but quite heavy walk.

Vitoria/Gasteiz - La Puebla de Arganzón | Camino Vasco del Interior | Gronze.com

Salimos de Vitoria por amables avenidas; luego, a partir de Gometxa, avanzamos por monte en un recorrido bonito y solitario. A la salida de Subijana ascendemos al Portillo de San Miguel, en una subida progresiva de 200 metros de desnivel; la bajada, sin embargo, es pronunciada y pedregosa. En...

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[Phoenix]

Dinner in Zubiri.
CF, 4 Sept 2018

 

[mspath]

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Dinner in Zubiri.
CF, 4 Sept 2018

Looks delicious! Where exactly did you eat; a resto or albergue or your kitchen?

 

[Phoenix]

Looks delicious! Where exactly did you eat; a resto or albergue or your kitchen?

I believe it was at Café Del Camino, at the corner of the path into town (crossing over the Rio Arga) and the N-135. Although, on second thought, it could have been at the excellent Albergue Suseia; I don't remember which.

 

[Rowena]

Walking through Sarria
CF, October 13, 2015

 

[mspath]

I believe it was at Café Del Camino, at the corner of the path into town (crossing over the Rio Arga) and the N-135. Although, on second thought, it could have been at the excellent Albergue Suseia; I don't remember which.

I remember "the path into town" fondly.

 

[FourSeasons]

CF APRIL 29, 2016, Castrojeriz. The welcome wagon.

 

[Theatregal]

July 29, 2014. Camino Ingles. View from the window of the wonderful albergue with the longest name - the Albergue de Peregrinos de Casa da Pescadería de Bentanzos.

 

[Phoenix]

Hope you folks don't mind an extra photo today...

Finally bought my flights for this summer.
If all goes according to plan, the walking will start here:

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Astorga
cathedral

photo taken November 11, 2010




As I was leaving Astorga at dawn a glorious golden light lit the south facade of the majestic cathedral.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I'm not piggybacking on @mspath's pic. I had this photo of an angel already in the queue. Outside the Episcopal Palace, Astorga.

 

[NYSE]

Just before the New Year seems a fine time to start a new thread. For those just joining us, the routine is to post a single photo per day from any camino.. If you can let us know where it is and which year, and if you are running out of images. repetition is quite OK.. Short stories are fun too, but not obligatory - part of what I so enjoy here is that other people's photos bring up memories, which keeps the thread endlessly interesting.

Such a blessing.
Gratitude for hospies everywhere.
Here is Luis, checking us in at the wonderful municipal in Beasain on the Vasco in 2018. Endless caritas there too:
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These are amazing. I wouldn't have gotten much farther for a while..

 

[Anne&Pat]

Pasajes de San Juan, note the shells on the gate. Camino del Norte, April, 2018.

 

[VNwalking]

Feeling very grateful for the fence that I was taking the photo through.
La Laguna, just short of O Cebreiro, 2014

 

[Kanga]

On the flower theme. A whole field of wild orchids on some swampy ground beside the path, not very far before Sanabria. Via de la Plata/Sanabres, 26 May 2018.

 

[SabsP]

The rain in Spain. Leaving Tolosa 2019.Vasco Interior.

 

[Phoenix]

Viana do Castelo --> Vila Praia de Âncora
CP, 10 Oct 2019

 

[VNwalking]

The rain in Spain. Leaving Tolosa 2019.Vasco Interior

The rain in Spain. Somewhere on the same day as Sabine's photo. 2019. Vasco Interior
It was wet. Really wet. So rivers were running the color of cafe con leche.

 

[Former member 49149]

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The rain in Spain. Leaving Tolosa 2019.Vasco Interior.

Sabine, at home and on Camino - you get more than your share of the wet stuff that falls from the sky!!!

 

[Caminogoat]

CF 2018 Hug your friends often; very sadly life guarantees no next chance.

 

[Rowena]

Approaching Portomarin
CF, May 8, 2018

 

[FourSeasons]

CF August 10, 2019 Sarria. The welcome wagon and my break buddy.

 

[Phoenix]

Hope you folks don't mind an extra photo today...

Finally bought my flights for this summer.
If all goes according to plan, the walking will start here:

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It's ironic that as soon as I post this (which has been the plan for a few months), I'm thinking about making a change...

Although I'll still be passing through Hontanas, I've almost made up my mind to start in Le Puy-en-Velay.

 

[Chenahusky]

Samos, CF June 2016.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Pieros

photo taken March 9, 2009



This humble nook is hidden in Pieros on the route to Villafranca del Bierzos; nearby endless acres of rolling vineyards produce the famous/delicious Bierzo wine.

 

[SabsP]

Plaza Mayor.
Briviesca. Vasco Interior 2019.

 

[Theatregal]

Looking back at Pamplona on an extremely hot day! I stopped at every tree, no matter how scraggly for a bit of shade. September 9, 2012

 

[Anne&Pat]

On our way to San Sebastian from Pasajes de San Juan. Camino del Norte, April, 2018. Away for the weekend, will be back Sunday.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I thought I wasn't going to get the chance to walk among the cows like I saw others doing in their videos. Then we got to Galicia.

 

[Rowena]

At Ventas de Naron, across the road from Casa Molar, if I remember correctly.
CF, October 14, 2015

 

[Phoenix]

I know this one is a repost from one of the earliest iterations of this thread. It's one of my top five from any Camino; it captured the pure delight of the start of another day.

Sarria --> Ponferrada
CF, 23 Oct 2016

 

[VNwalking]

Looking back at Pamplona on an extremely hot day! I stopped at every tree, no matter how scraggly for a bit of shade. September 9, 2012

What a contrast to your Primitivo photo near Oviedo! Different universes!

pure delight of the start of another day.

Same. Leaving Lalin, Invierno July 2019 - early enough that the pathway lights were still lit coming down to the via verde, and the forest was lit by sunbeams.

 

[Caminogoat]

2019, Primitivo
They were rather annoyed that I was in their way.

 

[Chenahusky]

Some Cows above the clouds, enroute to Portomarin, Cf June 2016.

 

[FourSeasons]

CF August 11, 2019 just this side of the 100KM mile marker. This guy loved the fallen peaches from the nearby tree. Who could blame him.

 

[mspath]

Roncesvalles
winter landscape

photo taken January 8, 2010



Glimpsing this ethereal winter landscape was my reward after walking 6 hours alone through wind, sleet, and snow up to Roncesvalles monastery via the verges of route N-135 since following the Valcarlos alternate CF through the snowy wood could be perilous.

 

[Theatregal]

That tree between Villamajor de Monjardin and Los Arcos. September 12, 2012

 

[SabsP]

Cat. O Cebreiro. CF 2011.

 

[VNwalking]

Somewhere between Rabe and San Anton. May 2019.
The wheat was gently bending in waves, being riffled by a gentle breeze. And that sky!
It was mesmerizing.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

At a bar in Undués de Lerda, on the Aragonese and not far from Navarre, I saw elephants. No, not pink ones and, sorry to say, none with red socks or toenail polish.

 

[Rowena]

The “floating islands” at sunrise, between Ventas de Naron and Palas de Rei
CF, October 15, 2015

 

[Phoenix]

Evening stroll, Portomarín.
CF, 23 Oct 2016

 

[Chenahusky]

North of Sarria, CF May 2019.

 

[FourSeasons]

CF August 21, 2019 Looking out to the Rio Mino and the bridge, Portomarin, while enjoying an ice cream.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Fromista
Canal de Castilla Esclusa cuádruple

photo taken February 28, 2007



This view shows the four huge Fromista locks.
Constructed 1753 -1849 to transport wheat by barge the Canala de Castilla today irrigates 48 municipalities. Canalside pathways are used for recreation; sections of the Canal flow past sections of the Camino Frances.

 

[Theatregal]

Passing through and looking back at the hamlet of Ferreiros and the Iglesia de Santa María with its 12th century Romanesque facade and beautiful little churchyard. Had hoped to stop for coffee at the cafe / bar O Mirallos, but it was very busy inside and out with groups of men. Trucks and cars were full of barking dogs. Hunting season? Camino Frances, October 7, 2012.

 

[SabsP]

Musicshop in Logroño. CF 2011. Taken with a simple camera. That was before I had a cellphone with a picturefunction. Otherwise I could have sent the picture to one of my friends who loves to stop in these kind of shops.

 

[Phoenix]

Early morning, looking back at the low clouds hovering over the river, Portomarín.

CF, 24 Oct 2016

 

[Chenahusky]

View from Hotel, Rua do Vilar, SDC, CF May 2017. 0614 hrs. The morning after finishing, good nights sleep, but still up early from habit!

 

[Rowena]

This photo is labeled Camiño in my file. I’m not sure where that is exactly, just that it’s close to Palas de Rei.
October 15, 2015

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I don't think I took any fog in the valley pictures because we were late starters and any fog of that type had burned off before we warmed up. We did walk through fog though. This fog was found from Finisterra to Muxia. It was about 11:30. Peg said to not worry, it will be clear at 12:00. It was.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/attachments/fog-jpg.80610/

 

[nycwalking]

Castrojeriz to Frómista.

August 2001.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
towards Rabanal

photo taken November 13, 2010



This small personal, pathside cross is somewhere west of Santa Catalina de Somoza and east of Rabanal del Camino.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

I don't think I took any fog in the valley pictures because we were late starters and any fog of that type had burned off before we warmed up. We did walk through fog though. This fog was found from Finisterra to Muxia.

My photo from yesterday, fog in the morning leaving O Cebreiro, June 2019.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

My photo for today .
A little bit after leaving O Cebreiro it became clear that I was now walking above the fog/clouds.

 

[VNwalking]

That place before Triacastella, where the way ahead seems to end in space, with hills and clouds far below...ah, wonderful!
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Camino
By David Whyte
The way forward, the way between things,
the way already walked before you,
the path disappearing and reappearing even
as the ground gave way beneath you,
the grief apparent only in the moment
of forgetting, then the river, the mountain,
the lifting song of the Sky Lark inviting
you over the rain filled pass when your legs
had given up, and after,
it would be dusk and the half-lit villages
in evening light; other people’s homes
glimpsed through lighted windows
and inside, other people’s lives; your own home
you had left crowding your memory
as you looked to see a child playing
or a mother moving from one side of
a room to another, your eyes wet
with the keen cold wind of Navarre.

But your loss brought you here to walk
under one name and one name only,
and to find the guise under which all loss can live;
remember, you were given that name every day
along the way, remember, you were greeted as such,
and treated as such and you needed no other name,
other people seemed to know you even before
you gave up being a shadow on the road
and came into the light, even before you sat down,
broke bread and drank wine,
wiped the wind-tears from your eyes:
pilgrim they called you,
pilgrim they called you again and again. Pilgrim.

 

[SabsP]

Around Idiazabal.
Pais Vasco at its finest.
Camino Vasco Interior 2019.

Idiiazabal is famous for their cheese.

Idiazabal cheese - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Camino Vasco Interior was till now the best Camino in terms of food. Refined cuisine.

One of the best places, still very informal though , was Ama taberna in Tolosa.

AMA Tolosa | Restaurante de Tolosa

En AMA os trasladamos una experiencia culinaria única en la región, basada en la autenticidad de los productos locales de la comarca de Tolosaldea, la cocina de mercado y el respeto por sus productores. Con el lema "Lo local nos protege, protejamos lo local", el restaurante se ha comprometido a...

www.amataberna.net

A blogentry from someone who captured it very well.

Ama : Tolosa, Basque Country — Blank Palate

Ama Taberna in Tolosa, Gipuzkoa (in the heart of Basque Country, Spain) is a local gem with fantastic produce. A great day trip and place to eat when visiting San Sebastián.

www.travelcookeat.com

 

[dick bird]

Apples



Behold the apples’ rounded worlds:
juice-green of July rain,
the black polestar of flowers, the rind
mapped with its crimson stain.

The russet, crab and cottage red
burn to the sun’s hot brass,
then drop like sweat from every branch
and bubble in the grass.

They lie as wanton as they fall,
and where they fall and break,
the stallion clamps his crunching jaws,
the starling stabs his beak.

In each plump gourd the cidery bite
of boys’ teeth tears the skin;
the waltzing wasp consumes his share,
the bent worm enters in.

I, with as easy hunger, take
entire my season’s dole;
welcome the ripe, the sweet, the sour,
the hollow and the whole.

Laurie Lee

Anyone who has walked through Asturias in Autumn will know exactly what he is talking about. Laurie Lee set off from the little Gloucestershire village he grew up in ‘one midsummer’s morning’ to busk and work his way up to London and ended up walking across Spain before being caught up in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was evacuated by the Royal Navy but returned to assist the Republican cause later.

 

[Phoenix]

It's good to be thinking and planning for the return to Camino this summer... and taking hundreds more photos while there. Feels like I'm running out of quality photos for this thread.

CF, Sept 2018

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Camino Frances
towards Rabanal

photo taken November 13, 2010

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This small personal, pathside cross is somewhere west of Santa Catalina de Somoza and east of Rabanal del Camino.

The cross is in El Ganso. I have a picture of it also. We walked from Astorga to Santa Catalina. A short way but it was Peg's first day walking after about five days incapacitation with tendonitis. To kill time I walked on to El Ganso to take photos since I wouldn't have time to do so on the following day.

 

[Chenahusky]

Definitely a repost. My first visit to SDC, October 1964. On my subsequent visits, it has been fun to see what has not really changed. The old town is essentially the same, outside the old town, almost everything feels changed. It was fun to try to find the shop that I bought wine in, it is now a souvenir shop. Not many of those in 1964, not many tourists either.

 

[mspath]

The cross is in El Ganso. I have a picture of it also. We walked from Astorga to Santa Catalina. A short way but it was Peg's first day walking after about five days incapacitation with tendonitis. To kill time I walked on to El Ganso to take photos since I wouldn't have time to on the following day.

Rick,
Thanks for this update. Did you also take the little church? I have one of the built-in exterior "seat" but little of the building.

 

[VNwalking]

Feels like I'm running out of quality photos for this thread.

The tail is wagging the dog. But no complaints from the peanut gallery!

Refined cuisine.

Except for that first place we went in Tolosa for a menu del dia, whose name I can't remember. Thank you for those links, Sabine! Fond memories. It was an incredible place.

 

[SabsP]

The tail is wagging the dog. But no complaints from the peanut gallery!


Except for that first place we went in Tolosa for a menu del dia, whose name I can't remember. Thank you for those links, Sabine! Fond memories. It was an incredible place.

Oh yes I forgot that place. Recommended by the owner of the pension where we stayed. The same gloom of dark wood panels...

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Rick,
Thanks for this update. Did you also take the little church? I have one of the built-in exterior "seat" but little of the building.

I must have taken some pictures of it but I don't have any. Of the pictures I took of Barcelona and the CF up to Galicia I lost maybe 3,000 out of about 4,000 in a memory card accident. When I discovered this in Muxia I said a few loud words and then calmed down thinking about 35 years of slides I never see. Besides, these days you can easily view photos of places on the internet. Like those of the Iglesia de Santiago in El Ganso taken by others that can be seen on Google Maps.

IGLESIA DE "SANTIAGO" · LE-6304, 24718 El Ganso, León, Spain

★★★★★ · Historical landmark

maps.app.goo.gl

 

[VNwalking]

Did you also take the little church? I have one of the built-in exterior "seat" but little of the building.

I have two from successive years; I was clearly taken by the church's structure, and the storks on it - but was unable to get a photo without power lines in the foreground!

 

[Rowena]

Casa Domingo, near San Xulian, between Palas de Rei and Melide
CF, May 9, 2018



A wonderful place to stay, complete with relaxing, quiet outdoor space behind the albergue, a communal dinner, and after dinner, what I can only describe as a Galician incantation ceremony, for which each of us paid two Euros.
In the dark, with spooky music playing, our black-robed host made a concoction of fruit, sugar and alcohol, set it afire and poured the burning liquid from a ladle while speaking what I assumed was an ancient incantation. Afterwards we all drank a small glass of the remaining liquid, but unfortunately, the alcohol had all been burned off!
I got the impression that this is something you have to know about and ask for. A group of eight Spanish people from Barcelona, who said they walk together every year and stay at Casa Domingo, knew about it and asked the host to do it. A very memorable experience, one I won’t forget.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I guess I might as well post one of my (now) few pictures taken in El Ganso.

 

[Theatregal]

Did you also take the little church? I have one of the built-in exterior "seat" but little of the building.

I have two from successive years; I was clearly taken by the church's structure, and the storks on it - but was unable to get a photo without power lines in the foreground!

Iglesia de Santiago, El Ganso. Here's mine from Oct. 2, 2012. Yes, no getting around those power lines

 

[FourSeasons]

CF August 13, 2019 after an early morning start from Palas De Rei, I spotted the giant shell. I pushed open the gate to sneak this photo.

 

[Phoenix]

The tail is wagging the dog. But no complaints from the peanut gallery!

Perhaps/thanks. Part of the reason I take so many photos is with the hope my granddaughter (and any other future grandchildren) will one day look at them and marvel at the places I've been in this world and to pass on the wanderlust to them to go/see/experience/develop a world-based POV.

And, to be honest, these threads (photos and stories that accompany them) are the only thing draws me to the forum; I don't get much from it otherwise.

 

[SabsP]

Perhaps/thanks. Part of the reason I take so many photos is with the hope my granddaughter (and any other future grandchildren) will one day look at them and marvel at the places I've been in this world and to pass on the wanderlust to them to go/see/experience/develop a world-based POV.

And, to be honest, these threads (photos and stories that accompany them) are the only thing draws me to the forum; I don't get much from it otherwise.

There is something very comfortable/ comforting indeed in the natural flow of this thread!

 

[Chenahusky]

Perhaps/thanks. Part of the reason I take so many photos is with the hope my granddaughter (and any other future grandchildren) will one day look at them and marvel at the places I've been in this world and to pass on the wanderlust to them to go/see/experience/develop a world-based POV.

And, to be honest, these threads (photos and stories that accompany them) are the only thing draws me to the forum; I don't get much from it otherwise.

I feel that the regular posters on this thread are like a close, warm, friendly family. It is always my first port of call on the Forum. If I can help elsewhere, I do. Thank you to all of you.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Torres del Rio

photo take February 14, 2007



I crossed this solitary pathway in Torres del Rio on Saint Valentine's night during my third camino. I loved the camino then and continue to love it now. ...Happy Valentine's Day!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

...Happy Valentine's Day!

are in order.

 

[nycwalking]

Back of photo says August 01, 2001.

On way to Carrión de Los Condes.

Villacázar De Sirga.

 

[SabsP]

Leaving Briviesca. Parallel to the railway for a while. Vasco Interior.

Briviesca - Monasterio de Rodilla | Recorrido | Camino Vasco del Interior | Gronze.com

Recorrido y Cultura de la etapa Briviesca - Monasterio de Rodilla de la Camino Vasco del Interior en el Camino de Santiago: Pueblos y ciudades, notas sobre el recorrido, monumentos, paisajes

www.gronze.com

 

[VNwalking]

are in order.

Here you go.
On the Paramo, between Leon and Mazariffe, CF 2015.

Thank you for all the uplifting images, everyone!

 

[Anne&Pat]

San Sebastian in view. Although we had only just started the Camino del Norte, we took a couple of rest days in San Sebastian as our sister-in-law and niece flew over from Scotland to see us, which was wonderful. April, 2018.


Great to be back. We were able to enjoy all your photos and poems while we were away, just couldn't post any ourselves.

 

[Rowena]

View from the bridge, entering Melide
CF, May 10, 2018