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Friday March 21st 2008

Good Friday, I'm up at 8:00.

I check the e-mail deleting the hundreds of junk e-mails I get everyday. It takes around ten minutes a day. Say 1 hour a week x 52 weeks of the year. If I'm awake 17 hours per day, then that's 52 div 17 = 3 waking days a year spent deleting spam. A scary stat.

We collect two bales of dried meadow grass and flowers for the donkeys. We drive to the donkeys and walk them, they eat lots of grass and wild flowers.
We enjoy the time sitting in the sunshine together.
We take them back to eat their seed and give them some of their hay.

There's a procession from the Ermita in the plaza, where the statue of the crucified Christ is carried around the village. Stopping at the 12 Estaciones de La Cruz at different settings around the village.
We walked down to Café Bar Guayácan for a coffee while we waited for the procession.
I saw a lovely Borage, (Borago Officionalis) on the wall above us. It's usually a difficult flower to photograph as the pretty flowers are turned to the ground.
The church in Benarrabá has a lovely 'Borage' blue tiled dome on top of the clock tower.
We were enjoying a strong hot coffee when the procession stopped at a handily placed Estación outside the bar. We drank quickly, paid and went outside to photograph the scene.
This is Benarrabá from near the village cemetery. The apartment is the building furthest and highest from the camera. It has amazing views across the village and along the Genal Valley. We walked along passed the village all weather sports pitch. It was lovely in the warm sun. This Wisteria covers a pergola in the village school.
Nasturtiums are an easy flower to grow.
We walked back down to the village. On the way down I spotted a rare White Borage (Borago Officionalis 'Alba'). It was flowering amongst a lot of Blue Borage.
This White Flower brightens up shady banks it was growing near an Ivy.
This is a common yellow flower found on waste ground and poor soils, Mount Porón is in the background.
We caught back up with the procession as it came down Calle Pósito.
A good turn out, all the processions are well attended.
We went into Bar Andrés Sánchez for a coffee. Andrés kindly bought it for us.
Then we went next door to Bar Barroso for tapas and a sin alcohol beer.

We walked up Calle Pósito. Jane took this of a window in a lovely old house, the flower is winter flowering Jasmine (Jasmin Nudiflorum)
Another of Jane's photo's. This is a pretty blossoming shrub.
Back home Jane cooked a roast chicken dinner. A great meal, one of our favourites.
We spent time with the dogs and the cats. Charlie's head has almost healed and we've tentatively taken off his plastic protector. Hopefully he won't scratch his head again. He's had this protector on for nearly five months ... it's strange to see him without it.