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2006 November 4 & 5, Saturday & Sunday


Time for some stones to be carried and placed. My plan is to use natural stone generously on some parts of the terrain. Natural stone is of course abundantly present in this mountainous area and also the numerous ruins of houses and sheds can offer an almost unlimited supply of stone. A problem could be the transport but this is perhaps only a question of contacting the local handyman or builder. One month later I would be lucky with a considerable amount of big stones from my neighbour but this I will comment in one of the following diary entries. The cement blocks I used for the biowall were more of an incident. They are actually quite ugly but they were already on the terrain and accommodated a lot of wildlife. The Hedera helix and Clematis vitalba will soon cover most of the surface, I suppose.

 

 

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  The first stone group. Placing stones is almost a (Japanese) form of art. I try to find the right combination of naturalness, spontaneity, harmony and a touch of expressiveness.
4 Nov 11:59
  I am a little bit reluctant to use debris the way Le Roy uses it in the Netherlands. He seems to have a supprising supply of beautiful and manageable bricks which play an important role in the esthetic quality of his ecocathedral. Debris in Spain may contain everything except this kind of bricks and I think natural stone is the more obvious choice.

 

For the moment, not having the supply and transport possibilities, I concentrated on some isolated stonegroups on the drier, higher western part of the terrain.

 

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The stonegroup seen from the northwest.
5 Nov 13:09
  An impression on January 7, 2007 10:04
 

An olive orchard in a neighbouring village.
4 Nov 17:10

After some months of concentrating and being busy on our own terrain we started to explore the surrounding region a bit better. This resulted also to be a very pleasant experience. The landscape is formed by cereal fields, olive and almond orchards, wood, rocks and some small villages scattered over what is really a kind of highland. Some olive trees must be several centuries old and perhaps it's time that they received some kind of official protection because they are beginning to be commercialised and sell for hundreds of euros while at the same time they don't always survive the move..

 

 

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4 Nov 17:04  
A nice ground cover on the highest terrace where the soil must be relatively shallow and/or poor.
A Prunella species, small Prunus spinosa shrubs, Sedum sediforme.
 5 Nov 9:28
The next day I took some photographs near the ground surface of some areas of the terrain.
The variety and richness of species is astonishing and it will take me perhaps years to identify all the species, especially the smaller ones.
 
Same area, here with the dried stems of some Euphrasia species.
5 Nov 9:36
 

In the central lower part: Centaurea scabiosa, Picris hieracioides, Sanguisorba minor, Rubia species, Medicago species.
5 Nov 9:01

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

In the central part: Taraxacum sp, Echium vulgare, Ajuga chamaepitys, Alyssum minus, Eryngium campestre.
5 Nov 17:08

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