Monday 2 November 2009

Autumn




Today it started to feel a bit cold and we needed coats when we went out into the windy morning. You couldn't see the mountains for the clouds on them. Looks like the autumn weather has come at last. There are fallen leaves all over the pavements just to prove it really is the beginning of November.
Yesterday we went to Gavín, a village just past Biescas in the Tena valley-first to visit the Mozarabic chapel of San Bartolomé and walk in the country, and then then a wander round part of Gavín. It was completely destroyed in the civil war; only one building remained standing, and now there are quite a lot of newly-built houses. Very pretty and well-kept. Was there one balcony or windowsill without pots of geraniums decorating it?
It was warm and sunny - for November, and the trees on the hillsides were in their autumn colours.