Walking in the fields

Now the weather is still good for walking and nature is in full bloom, we joined the monthly walk of our 'Coffee, Chatting and Stroll' group (KKK in Dutch, not to be mistaken by the US meaning)

 

This time the walk started in the neighbor village of Benitatchell

in the Costa Blanca, of course...

 

 

one of the few buildings we came by, is this new finca style house

 that is almost finished

The trees here are mainly pine trees and they are protected now, after lots of them were cut down due to intensive building activities some twenty years ago

 

 

the roadside and borders of wine fields are full with flowers at this time of the year

 

 

the pink variety of this little, lovely flower of which I don't know its name

 

 

this one is much bigger, but quite as beautiful

 



 

Benitatchell is a very old village, on this picture seen from the backside

 



 

the size of the bigger pink flower can be seen above

 



 

almost at the end of the walk...

 

Except for a few cars, nobody else was seen. How lucky we are, here in the Costa Blanca, in Spain

 

PS though absolutely not art related, I thought you might like to get a glimpse of the environment we live in. This all is at a few miles distance from the Mediterranaen!

 

Thanks for visiting today,

 

Regina



Red cabbage

Oh please, let me write a new post before it will be over a year once more..!

 

We have had a busy period here in coastal Spain. Our three children visited us at the same time for the first time since long ago. We hosted a birthday party, which of course involved pretty much planning and organizing, but was very worth the effort!

 

In the meantime I finished a new painting that will be hung in the gallery part of the club we attend, so that was about what was keeping me offline the past few weeks.

 

Oh, and I seriously restarted my personal fitness program, that consists of three times a week a long walk (both flat and hilly roads) and yogaclasses. The latter I practised some 30 yrs ago and boy can one notice that.. After some weeks of this new regimen I felt the need to add some corework to that, so I pumped up my fitness ball and started with that too. All this fitness business should (at least) lead to a lower blood pressure without medicine and the first signs show that it works

 

 

 

This picture is composed of one with a gorgeous red cabbage that I shot at a farmers market in this same autumn period last year. I layered it with a photograph of a billboard of said farmers market, which is called  'Mercat de la Terra' in Valencian.

And because my next painting will be about Van Gogh's style I put a filter over it in dry brush strokes in Photoshop.

 

Next time I will show my just finished painting, I want to wait until it is hung you see...

 

Thanks for your visit, your patience and friendship,

 

Regina

Coastal walk

Today I want to show some pictures of yesterday's walk along the coast.

We live very close to the sea and our walk started at one of the lovely 'chirinquito's, which more or less means 'summertime' restaurant

 

 

In the middle on the left you can see Cap d'Or.

 It has a very old, little tower on top and is said to have been part of a defense line all along the Mediterranean coast

 

 

though the water is cooling down quickly after this week's heavy rainfall, there were a few (older!) people swimming!

 

 

just around the corner of the little pebble beach,

 we discovered this stretch of rocks.

There's a natural pool that I will surely explore next summer..

 

 

the sea might constantly want to get one's attention,

 but look what is visible when you look down!

 

 

the lines have been formed of a kind of marble material,

at least it had the same gleaming shine (which the picture sadly does not show)

 

 

  we left the beach and on our way back I spotted this lovely vacation villa

. Hmm, looks like a lovely place to spend the summer...

 

 

  one last glimpse of the coast through the pine trees

 

 

 

and almost home, back in our street,

a final piece of old, forgotten beauty

 

 

That's it, my eye candy of yesterday's walk

 

Wishing you a great weekend!

 

Regina