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| Simancas (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015
among the pine trees
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| Simancas (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
This pine grove makes up almost 1000 hectares (roughly 2,400 acres) and is a great place to come to get away from life in the city. Biking, rollerblading, walking, horseback riding and having picnics are just some of the things which can be done here.
Friday, May 29, 2015
a building full of history
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| Simancas (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
The Archive of Simancas holds and catalogs many of the historical documents that made Spain what it is today.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
General Archive of Simancas
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| Simancas (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
The first official archive for the Crown of Castille was founded in 1540 in the castle of Simancas.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
medieval bridges
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| Simancas (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
A Roman bridge once stood here, but nothing remains from that bridge. This bridge was rebuilt in the 13th century containing Romanesque and Gothic features.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
the land of clay roof tiles
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| Simancas (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
The tower of the church of El Salvador dates back to the 12th century while the rest of the church was rebuilt in the 16th.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Sunday, May 24, 2015
sky
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| Simancas (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, May 23, 2015
crossroads
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| Montes Torozos - Peñaflor de Hornija (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.
Friday, May 22, 2015
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
a field of flowers
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| Santa Espina (Valladolid - Castillia y León), Spain |
A field of flowers to brighten your day!
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
get out and do your thing
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| Liencres (Cantabria), Spain |
Whatever your thing is, just get out there and do it!
Monday, May 18, 2015
just me, my board and the sea
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| Loredo (Cantabria), Spain |
You never know what's waiting for you in the next wave... go for it!
Sunday, May 17, 2015
nature's peace
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| Santander (Cantabria), Spain |
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow
into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own
freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop
off like autumn leaves."
-John Muir
Saturday, May 16, 2015
the earth's beauty
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| Santander (Cantabria), Spain |
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
— Rachel Carson
Friday, May 15, 2015
always flowers
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| Liencres (Cantabria), Spain |
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
-Henry Matisse
Thursday, May 14, 2015
one touch of nature
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| Liencres (Cantabria), Spain |
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
-William Shakespeare
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
connect with nature
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| Liencres (Cantabria), Spain |
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
-William Wordsworth
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
moments...
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| Liencres (Cantabria), Spain |
Moments like this...
when time seems to stop and nothing exists other than the person you're with ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Happy Mother's Day!!!
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| Santa Espina (Valladolid - Castilla y León), Spain |
Happy Mother's Day to my DEAR MAMMA and to all the other moms out there celebrating this special day today!
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
The secret of the sea
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| Liencres (Cantabria), Spain |
“my soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Secret of the Sea)
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Sonnet CXVI
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| Liencres (Cantabria), Spain |
SONNET CXVI
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
–William ShakespeareAdmit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Monday, May 4, 2015
The Old Man and the Sea
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| Liencres (Cantabria), Spain |
"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."
-Ernest Hemingway
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Happy Mother's Day...
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| Barcelona (Catalunya), Spain |
Happy Mother's Day to all moms in Hungary, Lithuania, Mozambique, Portugal, Romania and Spain!!!
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Friday, May 1, 2015
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