Tag: pueblo

blues composition

cat with blue buckets
When I reached for the camera to take this picture, I think there were actually four cats on the steps and it should have been titled ‘black and blue’, but the other three are younger, more agile and less amenable to having things pointed at them.
 

benchmark

stone bench

I am amused by this stone bench up beyond the bull ring in Arenas de San Pedro, Castilla y León, central Spain.

Well, not so much amused by the bench, but by the engraving on it, which seems to be extraordinarily apt:

Banco de Castilla engraving on stone bench

Banco de Castilla no longer exists as an independent bank, but I am glad the benches it sponsored have not been removed. They are indeed bancos de Castilla – Castilian benches.

christmas in May

cotton-like seeds drift by the roadside
The weather in the village was undoubtedly summery last week, but I still managed to take some rather Christmassy photos.
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ever so umbel

About a month ago, some lads brought a horse to graze on the plot of land alongside ours. Sadly, though unsurprisingly, la yegua isn’t doing a very good job of clearing the brambles.

There’s another plant, too, that she seems to be studiously avoiding, and the other night the car headlights caught this pale army standing menacingly tall on the other side of the wall:

ferula stalks by night

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happy families

A paragraph from from Cantueso’s Shoptalk blog amused me. In the interests of political objectivity, I’ll point out that he starts the post by stating “En mi pueblo el alcalde es del PP”, whereas in my pueblo, the mayor is from the PSOE. It really doesn’t matter either way:

Como el alcalde tiene mucho trabajo, lo comparte con sus suegros, primos, primas, sobrinos, yernos, nueras, y con los familiares y amigos de éstos. Por eso el ayuntamiento es como una gran familia donde todos se quieren […]

which roughly translates as:
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