I went for a really nice walk with the doggies today. It was slightly down a valley so the sun had not yet warmed the ground and I could feel the chill still in the air.

Made me miss proper winter when it is below cero and the grass is all crunchy when you step on it. Which you will only get rarely where I am in Spain and only really if you go a bit further up the mountains. Though we did have a very cold winter some years ago where it was -5 º for several days. Imagine how cold I felt going to the bathroom in the patio! I am not sure the villagers knew what had hit them. A lot of the elder women simply put a bathrobe like thing on top of their ordinary clothes. Very efficient to combat the cold, but absolutely not a pretty sight.

The doggies loved it. There was loads of shrub for them to hide in so they could play hide and seek with each other, which is a favorite game. Usually one of them will try to hide and then pounce on the unsuspecting other, huge chase ensues followed by wrestling, dragging to the ground and growling. I really don’t think I know of other dogs playing that rough with each other. They don’t play the same way with other dogs they know.

I got some pics on my phone of the lovely setting, the dogs and a little flower. I am fairly sure it is a kind of lavender, maybe just a Spanish kind or a wild kind, you can be the judge. But it didn’t smell of much.