Kiersten Rowland

Dogs

Memory from this day 2012

Walks with a Siberian Husky and Leonberger puppy are never boring!

Dogs

Humid dog walk

We had a delayed dog walk this morning due to a storm, which sadly never arrived. Rita was convinced it was going to come and she refused to go on the walk.

Trekking

Upper Lanjaron Valley overnight

We walked up the Lanjaron Valley to the far end and came back via the spectacular Verea Corta. It was a surprisingly hot couple of days. We had some great close up encounters with wildlife including Golden Eagle, Griffon Vultures, Ibex and lots of butterflies.

Weather

Day 5 of the heatwave

This afternoon we have smashed yesterday's all time high record, which now stands at 43.8C (110.8F). Please don't let tomorrow, day 6 of the heatwave, be like today

Weather

Day 4 of the heatwave

So it seems yesterday was the warm up for today. We've just broken our all time high we've ever recorded at the house 🥵 It was 41.6C that was recorded in July 2017.

Weather

Day 3 of the heatwave

Day three of the heatwave. I'm late with today's picture because we took the dogs for a swim, so the picture was taken at 11.50am 32.7C In keeping with the 11am theme the temperature at 11am was 34.2C (93.5F) Our area is

Weather

Day 2 of the heatwave

Day two of the heatwave. Errrm it's 24C with 78% humidity at 11am.

Weather

Day 1 of the heatwave

Day one of the heatwave. I thought, out of curiosity, I'd try to take a picture around the same time each day.

Cats

Strange animals

Not sure any of our animals are normal

Walking

Keeping cool

Keeping cool walking in the river

Flora

Mission accomplished

Mission today was to locate the 5th Gentian that can be seen in the Sierra Nevada (there are 6 apparently).

Cats

Is my cat mad?

She's not all there

Visitors to the kale

Fluffed up badly on the dog walk today

Dogs

Dogs and Cats

I love to see the interaction between the dogs and cats

Trekking

Vasar de Mulhacen

The clouds enveloped us on and off. A big boom of thunder decided where we would spend the night.

Video

Happy Arko

Someone is happy about the cooler temperature this morning

Butterfly

Iberian Marbled White Butterfly

Iberian Marbled White (Melanargia lachesis)

Dogs

Random pictures and videos from the mobile

Just some random pictures

Nature

Ladder Snake and Calima

Bumped into this beautiful Ladder snake having a snooze, warming up, or whatever he was doing, on the dog walk yesterday morning.

Walking

Cerro de los Machos

We took the national park bus up into the Sierra Nevada. Then we dropped down into the impressive Corral de Veleta and started our ascent up Cerro de los Machos.

Trekking

A round of the northern peaks

This time we did an overnight camp to enable us to do this round trip. It was a short walk on the first day to our overnight camp spot at Lavaderos de la Reina.

Cats

Cats

Get cats you won't have a mouse problem!!

Nature

Ribbit

Dogs

Doggie bath time

The annual bathing of the dogs happened today, Rita is super white again 😎 Arko is dirtier than before

Walking

A walk up Cerro de Caballo

Another grand day out in the mountains this time we went up Cerro de Caballo (3009m).