Along the valley the trees are coming into leaf. It seems so long with bare trees , beige mud and low gray skies, so it's great to see some colour, the birds are singing like crazy, and the skies are blue, even though it is still chilly. Friends came over the weekend and we took them up to Jabalcuz, its a little green paradise there, against an impressive backdrop of mountains. Apart from us there was no one there, except a gardener trimming the hedges. Last time I was there, a few weeks ago, water draining down from the mountains turned all the steps into living waterfalls, and the decorative pond was a little abandoned, the fountains weren't working and leaves floated in the water against green stones , I rather liked it like that, now the water is crystalline and the stones are no longer green and the leaves have gone, but I got a photo and here it is.
Here are a few more photos of Jabalcuz, (that rushing water is very warm!) Jabaluz used to have a Thermal Spa. The setting reminds me a little of Italy , think this is because of the steep mountain backdrop and the variety of trees, its a surprisingly different place to much of the countryside around Jaén, and its only a few kilometres away, I should escape there more often I think and take my sketch book with me.
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