Kiersten Rowland

Birds

Bee Eater

One we all love to see.

Dog Walk

Trying to beat the rain

Change of route on our walk today to beat the rain.

Walking

An ascent of Giralda

A hard walk in the hot sun.

Cats

Sooty

Orchid

Southern Early Purple (Orchis olbiensis)

Today's dog walk took us past another orchid spot. I only know of this one spot locally for the Southern Early Purple orchids (Orchis olbiensis).

Orchid

Pink Butterfly Orchid (Orchis papilionacea)

Don't tell anyone but I'd forgotten about this particular Pink Butterfly orchid.

Cats

Feety feet

Cats and dogs feety feet

Orchid

In search of the Naked Man ....... orchid

Went in search of the naked man ..... orchid today. Didn't find it,

Nature

Red Squirrel

The dogs met a red squirrel today. The first squirrel they have ever seen.

Orchid

Sawfly Orchid (Ophrys tenthredinifera)

My back allowed me to get down to photograph this Sawfly orchid today.

Orchid

Yellow Bee Orchid (Ophrys lutea)

First of the Yellow Bee orchids are coming through now.

Dog Walk

Happenings Today

Walked up the hill today to find these two sat waiting for us in the shade. I think Rita has a big smirk on her face at the face Arko was making The land that was poisoned is now turning brown and dying. Makes me angry. Sunset this evening.

Dog Walk

The Mezquerina Acequia

This has turned into a regular longer dog walk for us.

Butterfly

Swallowtail Butterfly

This beautiful Swallowtail butterfly, who looks freshly emerged, came for a feed this morning on the Osteospermum, but only the purple ones!

Nature

Conehead Mantis

I went out with the macro lens to photograph wild orchids. This little guy came over to see what was going on.

Weather

Incoming Storm

A storm arrived in Lanjaron. It had a fast moving lead Arcos cloud.

Orchid

Fan-lipped Orchid (Orchis collina)

I found the first Fan-lipped Orchid (Orchis collina) of the season today.

Cats

Windy day snuggles

Sweep is snoozing cuddled into Rita's feet.

Weather

Same view different day

One view, one sunset, one sunrise.

Dogs

Cover of an Album

Is it just me or does anyone else think my dogs look like they should be on a cover of an album?

Lanjaron

Home made wine

The neighbour has given us a couple of bottles of his wine. It's actually very good.

Lanjaron

Good Morning from Lanjaron

Good Morning from Lanjaron

Lanjaron

The life of an almond tree blossom

In less than a month this almond tree had done it's thing.

Dog Walk

Audition to be a GIF

Sooty auditioned to be a GIF! We've had some crazy winds, again, in Lanjaron, we recorded 70kph in the early hours of today.

Lanjaron

Good Morning

Good Morning from a windy Lanjaron