silly quibbles at the julio romero de torres museum in cordoba ...

there are no lemons in the painting called oranges and lemons

the guide book and the gallery labels do not mention her garter

she's stirring some embers in a brasero, an old-fashioned room heater ... the museum's guide book says the picture was a tribute to the local coal merchants

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasero_(heater)

at the neolithic graveyard above gorafe

stuff in cordoba

on the hill above consuegra

unnecessary colour

more unnecessary colour

velez blanco

almodovar del rio

belalcazar

in segovia

a bit of local colour

blue spanish eyes !

georgia o'keeffe ... luckily popped in to the thyssen in madrid on saturday morning before flying home ... and enjoyed these two, amongst others ... she had a great instinct and skill for creating tangible spaces

masters of masonry ... a balcony in trujillo, offset to give a view across the plaza

my avis-rent-a-car fiat 500 in spain ... just got back from a walk as the storm arrived

made in gainsborough ...

... resting and rusting on the outskirts of avila

if you love ancient glass ... just look what they found in cordoba

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_glass

i don't know why they've coloured it green, its an effing bald mountain

once upon a time, at dawn, whilst flying down from barcelona to granada to meet tony and donna, i saw a rather intimidatingly rocky table-top kind of a mountain  ... it took me ages to discover a map that let me find out what i'd seen and now i'm going to take a better look at calar de la sima ... back in two weeks

we were just passing through bletchingley this afternoon ...