@setmeravelles brilliant series, one of the best.
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@andybalaam me too
@tapasinthesun We are normally cautious from February until May but gestation I think changes with altitude (not 100% certain about that). The higher we go, the later in the year we encounter them. Don't see many active from May onwards
Oh what a beautiful morning. Have a great Sunday you Mastodon tooters!
Image of the Andalucian town of Lanjarón y the prominent cliffs opposite, called the Tajos Colorao
@jds I'm a hiker, not a runner, but use Altra Lone Peaks on our summer trails. Really comfortable, but I am always disappointed by their lack of resilience and durability. They wear down far too quick.
@tapasinthesun in summer we walk early and he has his own pool and cool places to hang out.
We have to be careful of the processionary caterpillars when we are out in pine forests. We try to avoid badly affected areas. Thankfully not too many nests close to home
Spring has definitely arrived in southern Spain. Even where I live, at 700 metres of altitude, it's 26c+ this afternoon. Here's an image of our Siberian Husky, Arko enjoying the dog walk this morning before it got too hot for him.
@bartcopp interesting and well portrayed report. Thanks for sharing
@alan.grant one of my favourites in that area but I've always found it quite a hard pull, for my ageing body, getting up there
@setmeravelles I had my teenage years in the late 60s and 70s. I don't think I ever really understood or appreciated just what a superb generation of music we lived through. We were so lucky!
Having a quiet afternoon listening to Patti Smith and wondering where her music has been all during my misspent youth. Now age 76 and still touring
@chriswright Sods law eh? Anyway, will be great for next year 😂
@chriswright good to see you on here Chris. And, with your own instance. Well done!
@chriswright we normally go through 70x15kg sacks a winter. This year we have used only 50 so far this year and with temperatures 20+ for the foreseeable future, it shows how mild it has been this winter.
The pretty village of Polopos in Andalucias' Sierra de Contraviesa hills. This village has been brought back to life after a Dutch reality TV series brought people back here. A picturesque village being lovingly restored by the locals. Sat on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean.
The pretty village of Sorvilán in the Sierra de Contraviesa. Slow, sleepy Spanish life where time has seemingly stood still. Superb views south over the sea towards Morocco.
Wild Women (+Jim!). A bit of a windy day in the Sierra de Contraviesa today!
@Steveb That's exactly the thought process we had to go through
@Steveb I think they are at this present point in time. I bought a new car a year ago and decided it was too early for electric for me. Expensive, lack of infrastructure and who knows how far technology will have surpassed current technology in a couple of years? Depreciation could be huge.
@badger0us great project
Delighted to finally have our Solar Hot Water system installed. Together with our solar panels we can now produce about 95% of our annual electricity needs.
@jds These small gear manufacturers deserve our full support. True innovators and committed to the cause. The gear is usually exceptional
@jds Interesting, I'll look them up. I use a custom pack from a UK source as it's difficult to get US made gear in Europe. An Atom+ 40 litre pack weighs under 1.5lbs
https://atompacks.co.uk/collections/the-atom-plus/products/the-atomplus-custom
@jds what pack do you use?
@tapasinthesun really nice town that. You've captured the atmosphere well with that image
In fact there is an easy way suggested, using eleventy-sass and eleventy-plugin-rev
https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2022/09/cache-busting-eleventy-simpler-way-sass/
Big thanks to @[email protected] for providing the solution to my long term problem of cache-busting using @eleventy and Tailwind CSS using PostCSS. Been racking my tiny brain for ages trying to figure out a solution. His post can be found at
https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2020/11/using-postcss-cache-busting-eleventy/
@[email protected] thanks for that. Will give that list a look over
@AdamBishop Thank you
@AdamBishop Incredible landscape eh? Really enjoyed it
Just had to be my luck, didn't it? My first time hiking in the Gorafe Desert Badlands & temperatures were forecast to be below freezing. Now in my eyes, the words "Desert" & "Freezing" shouldn't go together. "Hot" & "Desert", that would surely be the norm, wouldn't it?
Generally easy walking on good tracks or dirt roads unless you get off route in which case it will be purgatory & you will possibly die horribly of heat, cold, drought or exposure 😂
New blog post https://elperronegro.com/ice-cold-in-gorafe/
The illusion in a photograph. The top 3rd of the image shows the Sierra Nevada which rise some 3000m above the plains of Guadix (marked by the obvious horizontal line). The bottom 2/3rds of the image into the fertile valleys near Gorafe represent a mere 200m altitude difference.
#Spain #Mountains #landscapephotography #landscape #photography
Last of the evening sun illuminates the torn, twisted and chaotic upheaval that comprises the Desierto del Gorafe. In the distance, the snow capped peaks of the Sierra de Cazorla.
#sunset #deserts #badlands #cazorla #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #spain #andalucia
Alcazaba (3371m) and Mulhacen (3482m) looking glorious late yesterday afternoon from the A92 Motorway north of Granada
#SierraNevada #Spain #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #mountains #snow
@alan Thanks very much for the support Alan. Glad you get something out of my writing.
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And the great thing is, nobody can ever take that away from me. Not ever. Not Zuckerberg, Musk, Besos, Gates and the rest of the shitcaboodle. It's all mine, all mine, I tell you.
So, it's all for me and only for me. Anyway after having said all that, here is this grumpy rant replicated on my blog
6/7
Yes, I write for me. Selfish ain't I? I want to keep a record of my life and a legacy of my time here. I am not content to wait a year until Mr Bloody Zuckerberg decides to show me some distant memories or indeed hope that Elon Musk doesn't ban me for not paying for his blue tick.
5/7
Along the way possibly other interested persons might read and gain some useful information. Possible new immigrants to Spain or hill walkers and hikers looking for new routes or ideas in the hills and mountains. Having said that, I don't expect many to read my words. I don't allow Google Analytics into my life, so I really have no idea how many visitors I have.
4/7
I have had some rather bleak, blank writing spells when the thoughts and ideas didn't flow, but for the last 5 years and especially since a heart attack I have kept up the steady flow of writing.
I write words on my blog for one reason and one reason only. For Me!
3/7
It's what the corporate social media site manipulates to show you what it thinks you want to see. It's a manufactured timeline, possibly full of ads and certainly not covering the whole range of your social contacts.
Is this the death of Blogging? No! "Long Live Blogs" I say. Why?
I have kept a blog of my experiences and adventures here in Spain since I arrived way back in 2002. Initially this consisted only of copy emails from me back to friends and family back in the UK.
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The fact is that people on social media would much prefer to hit the "like" button and move on. Rapidly. Without much thought. After all, they have a whole morning's timeline to clear through before mid-morning coffee. There's no time to stop and actually read something. And of course they forget that global corporate social media sites invariably have an algorithm to their timeline. That means it isn't actually a "timeline" anymore. Nope.
"To Blog or Not To Blog", that is the Question? (a grumpy thread)
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Writing blogs seems to be more and more a thing from the past, I guess partly due to the expanded influence of Social Media and everybody's increasingly busy lives? I know that when I write a blog it gets hardly any interaction from the public, certainly nothing as much as a nice photo of an adorable fluffy dog nor even as much as what I had on my dinner plate the previous evening.
Usually when I point my camera at Arko he turns around and shows me his backside. Either that or pulls a funny face. Today he must have seen something of interest over my right shoulder as I managed to get the little blighter 🤣
@Steveb @ossrox you can migrate your existing followers and following users. Past posts don't come across but old account gets linked to new one.
@Steveb @ossrox the Federated timeline shows you all public posts from users that people in your server follow. Took me a week or so to rebuild my timeline, follow hashtags, create lists etc.
Some good advice here https://fedi.tips/which-posts-and-accounts-can-i-see-from-my-server/
@Steveb @ossrox set it up as I quite liked the idea of a small independent instance for my business and its 4 users. It was installed on their server. Good prices and excellent service.
@Steveb I used the guys at @ossrox to set up an small private instance. I connected a domain name I owned. In terms of managing, it is very easy and not very onerous.
@Steveb set up your own business instance Steve?
@[email protected] good luck. I've found the Spanish health services to be amazing. Enjoy the scenery en route