After The Rain

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A type of statice seen on Los Lobos:

   

and the first of the pods on the Desert Rose ripened and released seeds today - I had great fun chasing them around the garden in the wind (on another rainy day)!
 

and saw a cotton tree in a friend's garden:

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Didn't manage to get a pic but the sparrows who are nesting on our terrace discovered the cotton today and have been lining their nest!

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 To get  worms to the surface, of course.

Not in Fuerte they won't! 

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I went for a walk over Tindaya plains down to the coast this afternoon to see what was new or different.

The squill looks like it is giving up without flowering:


rusty coloured lichen has suddenly brightened and become very noticeable in places:


there was evidence the brown bluebell has colonised here:


a little succulent was glowing purple - looked just like heather at first glance:
 

What was disappointing was the amount of broken glass, as it was accompanied by spent shell cases I can only assume bottles were the targets.   
 


alongside the road from Antigua to Pozo Negro this morning I saw what I thought was a variety of thistle. A closer look revealed a very pretty blue flower but definitely not a thistle!
   

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I saw what I think is a Thistle at the Mirador Las Penitas on the road from Pajara to Betancuria last Saturday - 

   

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Yep, that one's definitely a thistle - not somewhere to trip up!

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Yep, that one's definitely a thistle - not somewhere to trip up!

Obviously one of our Scottish brethren brought a seed over in his sporran

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Just coming in to flower, this plant fascinates me with it's little droplets of water on the stems and leaves;



and these fluffy little seedlings develop into a tough succulent



and another succulent that is looking very 'succulent' at the moment! 

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Prickly Pear with lots of fresh new growth

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and one prickly pear starting to bloom