Thursday 28 May 2020

Mountains

My last post was in March, just before the government declared the State of Alarm. Nobody could really imagine what was to come. We came to Jaca for the weekend in mid-March, and nearly the end of May we haven't been able to return to Zaragoza. We are very glad to have been able to stay in our home here; we have more space and plenty to keep us busy, a little garden to sit in and far fewer people than there are here usually.
Until last week when we made some hospital trips to Huesca, we hadn't left Jaca at all, but now the quarantine has been eased a little, we took ourselves to Formigal in the Tena valley to see daffodils. Too late! They had finished; but what we saw instead was wonderful!

Not our dog!






orchids




lots of asphodels



viola cornuta, horned pansy





The asphodel is opening.




The Midi d'Ossau, just over the (closed) border in France.