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The Wild Asparagus Hunters are Out and About

It´s that time of year. Cars parked in odd places, the solitary person - usually a man, popping up above a bank or from behind an olive tree. The hunters of the wild aparagus are here. The plentiful rain scattered with a day or two of sunshine has brought them out in droves. Some have their route, others instinctively know where to go. They appear, walking back to their cars, with a huge bundle of foot long green spears of asparagus. And off they go, probably not to be seen for another year - or another week if the rain continues. No matter how hard the shoots try and hide the older men hunt them down with stick in hand, to fob off the spiky old growth, and uncover the tender new stems of wild asparagus. Everyone has their favourite way of cooking them but the most common seems to be in a Tortilla - the thick Spanish potato omelette to which you can add anything that comes to hand - or is hunted down. My one or two shorter stem finds don´t come close to the experienced hunters catch. I...

CBBH Photo Challenge - Looking Up

This is my photo for East of Malaga´s August photo challenge - Looking Up. The first one was taken in Puerto Lapice and the second in Alcazar de San Juan both in Castilla- La Mancha on the Don Quixote Windmill Route on the flat plains of Spain just south of Madrid.

Not being able to decide which one to post - I posted two! I like the way the sails form a cross in the first one, I´m sure it wasn´t the plan when I took it!




See more windmill photos and read about my trip to the hot arid plains and Spain´s windmills.

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