IMAGES FROM A WEEKEND: TOLEDO/MADRID

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The pine cone is a Middle Eastern traditional element that is related to the unity of the people of Israel.

Vegetation and geometry are the images of the work of the Creator in the cosmos and nature.

This column is in Santa Maria La Blanca Sinagoga (Synagogue) Toledo, Spain

Early 13th C.

Phases of the Moon

Sepulchre Cover - an early inspiration for William Morris

Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo - Early 16th C.

A portrait in mosaic

A town scene in mosaic

Ceramica - Ferns

Ceramica - Tree on Pitcher (always looking for trees)

Ceramica - Bird (always looking for birds)

Ceramica - exquisite abstract brushwork

All of above at the Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo

And then Roy Lichtenstein's Sculpture - 

a big brushstroke moving through space

at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

And then Estatua del Angel Caido (Statue of the Fallen Angel)

a dynamic figure moving through space!

The Rain in Spain & Las Cigueñas

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain, but according to Wikipedia

"Spanish rain does not actually stay mainly in the plains. It falls mainly in the Northern Mountains."

I would agree with that. The Ebro River in Logroño is at least three or four times as wide as a result of heavy winter rains! Winter rains bring snow to the surrounding Cantabrian and La Demanda Mountains and our local ski area of Ezcaray. 

Bilbao, as in Museo Guggenheim, has 15 days of rain every month.

NEST PLATFORM 

A MATING PAIR ON TOP OF THE OLD HOSPITAL

THE CHIMENEA FROM THE OLD TABACALERA

PRAYING TO THE STORK!

THE RETURN OF THE STORKS!

IN THE STUDIO/TREES AFTER ANDALUCIA

ALHAMBRA TREE

MEZQUITA TREE

JARDIN TREES