Totanés Cromlech

We hardly know anything about ourselves. Clues, traces, ruins, stones, weathered objects. What were we then? "Sedentary people on the move." "Nomads who settled down" at times threatened, and far more often free to walk without fear beyond the river or the known mountain horizon. We once moved gigantic stones, played with them to create … Continue reading Totanés Cromlech

Thermophilic Mushrooms

In this year 2023, we've had a very dry start to the year. It hasn't rained at all since mid-January, and it wasn't until the second half of May that the first showers fell. The parched countryside has turned green again, bloomed, and the cereal crops seem to be recovering. The rivers are flowing vigorously … Continue reading Thermophilic Mushrooms

Cockle gatherers of Camariñas

From the heritage of Castro tribes that sculpt the landscape by adapting to the rugged morphology of the coastline. In the region of Tierra de Soneira on the Costa da Morte, in Camariñas, cockle gatherers work today in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Wind, cold, rain, sun, and rain again. A spontaneous blue stage … Continue reading Cockle gatherers of Camariñas

Ascent to the Gran Bachimala

The Gran Bachimala, or simply Bachimala, is a beautiful and somewhat remote mountain in the central Pyrenees. Despite its notable altitude, around 3200 meters, and being a magnificent viewpoint of the surrounding grand mountain ranges, it remains a less-visited three-thousander. It doesn't have the fame or the influx of visitors like its neighbors, Aneto or … Continue reading Ascent to the Gran Bachimala

Journey through the yellow sunflower

I want to take a journey to the yellow. This time, a journey in search of all those horizons where yellow is a sea of wheat and Van Gogh's sunflowers. It could include the small patches of intense yellow found in some fallow fields saturated with clusters of dandelions or bitter chicory, the very yellow … Continue reading Journey through the yellow sunflower

Mineralogy and geometry

I believe it is in the first cycle of current primary education where children begin to have their first contact with angles, lines, curves, and in general, all geometric shapes. It starts by recognizing the different geometric figures, first in two dimensions and then progressing to the third dimension. It was in third grade, when … Continue reading Mineralogy and geometry

Heptageniidae Family

Heptageniidae is a family of aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera, very abundant in the middle and upper reaches of rivers and whose presence is often a clear indicator of water quality. Like most mayflies, they spend most of their life in the larval stage in the riverbed; they are mainly scraper larvae, some … Continue reading Heptageniidae Family