We have visited Spain and Catalunya for rock climbing many, many times - in fact we've lost count! We've always visited either in autumn or winter. This year, the rain in France drove us south in springtime and it turns out it was a fantastic time to visit. We had wonderful, sunny days, 3 big, memorable hail storms, cool weather for climbing and we were treated to the best wild flowers we have ever seen.
Both David and I probably said 'Look! Here's a new kind of flower.', about a hundred times in the past few weeks.
Here's the visual story with a handful of the hundreds of photos we did take.
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| Spanish alpine flowers, Castello Mayor, Pyrenees |
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| This plant eventually gets large and leggy, but it's leaves are so perfectly sculptural when small. |
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| Flowers in towns abound, both untamed and rampant and in tended window boxes. You can see the sketch I did of this little nook in Rubio in my previous post. |
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| Who doesn't love fluffy pink flowers? |
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| Lilies? Sometimes there would be so many of these in one spot it would make walking a bit stressful ;-) |
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| More pretty whites. |
And some sketches....
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| Alpine flowers near Ager, Catalunya |
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| Pretty window boxes in Laspuna, near the Pyrenees, Spain |
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| I pushed open this little wooden gate into the cemetry and was treated to rampant, wild, untamed meadow. Perfect! |
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| Oh the joy of fields of poppies. Never tire of it! |
Part 3 of this series will be climbing, but due to the relatively small number of photos I think I'll probably just stick to the story of climbing in Riglos.
Check back soon.
