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HFF!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:16:21 +0000

More trumpet vine! Algete Street Scene 24.
The first photo from my new mobile phone. I'm going to need a lot of study and practice, so please bear with me!

New and, sadly, short-lived bud.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:45:26 +0000

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Thes was just opening up to reveal its beauty but that night there was a terrible heat wave and by the morning it had perished :o(

And yet another!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 21:09:45 +0000

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Another day, another storm!
And another day I had planned to get back to those mountains you see there!
Ha ha!!

HANWE, everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 21:10:57 +0000

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Anvil shaped storm cloud (I would guess somewhere over the Lozoya Valley), sunset and, yes, it came our way. Another very stormy sleepless night! Enough is enough!
(Sorry about the bit of camera shake clearly visible in those town lights!)

HFF. Trumpet vine.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:22:05 +0000

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I wasn't looking for perfection here, I just liked the colour contrast and the general HFF theme. Algete street scene 23.

Sunset, Algete

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:33:43 +0000

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Not the most spectacular sunset but the light just highlighted the Sierra de La Cabrera rather nicely here, I thought.
Probably better on large.
I add a note about the old road. We're lucky that the view is unspolt. The main roads to neighbouring villages go well to the left and right of our view!
Please see Pam J's response below. Much there of great interest!
Sight and Sound: Another Sixto Rodriguez classic; www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgQ-QrCFMjs

Dusk view without a sunset. The third of three posted tonight. No idea why, I just felt like it!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:05:24 +0000

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A shot taken from the opposite direction to the shot recently posted of the house from the road down there. Shot taken from the middle terrace, overlooking the lower terrace, part of the back garden and part of the vegetable and fruit garden.

Down our road!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:49:11 +0000

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Our 'posh' neighbours like to think they are living in, or more likely, ruling over some Near-or-Middle-East potentate!
Streets of Algete No. 22. 2nd of three tonight.
Maggie suggests 'excellent on large' and, as usual, Maggie is right!

Other steps in Valderrey, Algete. (The first of three Algete shots I'm posting tonight, just because I want to!)

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:37:45 +0000

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Algete is fairly hilly so there are plenty of alternative steps where I can take my exercise. This one boasts only 45 fairly gentle steps but when I add it to some of the other more serious flights, it all counts!
Streets of Algete no. 21.

I currently live here. A view of Valderrey. Algete street scene No. 21.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 21:54:27 +0000

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The house is indicated here (top right). It sits on the top of a ridge and commands extensive views over the countryside of the Jarama Valley and the distant Sierra de Guadarrama. It also affords views of some spectacular weather!

Madrid, as seen from the end of our street!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 21:34:04 +0000

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OK, it's 40 km away but you can see Adolfo Suarez Barajas Airport (yes we're on the flight path and the noise can be mindblowing from about 5 every morning!) and the Cuatro Torres (Four Towers) - although they are now Four-and-a-half Towers as strangely a half size additional tower was recently added and it looks a bit stupid, imho!
Obviously you need to go on large here! Another Algete Street scene - from the street so it counts! No. 20.

The problem of trying to snap bats!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 21:21:07 +0000

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They were out in force this dusk just gone and they are hard to capture at the best of times but this is their time when they feast on the plenty of mosquitos we unfortuntely get here, especially at the start of a heat wave (coming now). I sometimes try to capture them in honour of the sterling job they do (I react badly to mosquito bites!).
I can only find two and I thought I had got a dozen or so in shot!

Another stormy day! Or, a Midsummer Night's Dream!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:23:07 +0000

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Apart from 3 sunny days , the weather has been atrocious these past 6 weeks since I returned from Cornwall!
The oleander seems to thrive in it though!

Storm cloud

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:06:16 +0000

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The same one as two shots back and earlier in the day. It just seemed to sit there getting bigger and bigger until it was directly overhead and emptied its load. Fortunately the only (mild) damage was a flooded garage - a regular occurence - and a neightbour's tree blasted to smithereens!
It could have been far worse!

Dawn this morning.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:23:58 +0000

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My sister's shot and taken from exactly the same spot as the previous upload of this evening's storm! (totally by co-incidence!)
Sight and sound. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9UadB7XvE&list=RDGMEMSXVAzroJmjGomFuKt8TQEAVMJm9UadB7XvE&start_radio=1

Typical 'anvil' shaped thunder cloud and storm approaching.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:09:54 +0000

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Another humdinger of a storm this evening with huge hailstones. And predictions for more of the same this coming week. ( - As if we haven't had enough already!).
Sight and Sound: Well, it just had to be this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G2-FPlvY58

Sunset

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:17:01 +0000

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Today, three thunderstorms and a sunset.
Sight and Sound. Worth a listen. Canned Heat did well to record this and make it well known at Woodstock. It's a blues gem from 1928! www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8NJ-MIfFHI

Perhaps the last passion flower of the year.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:34:54 +0000

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Algete garden.
Sight and sound: An all time hero, Sixto Rodriguez: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W978zoLu1w
HANWE Everyone!

Poppy field and the hill of Valderrey

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:40:43 +0000

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Where I live for the time being. Algete street scene no. 19. Not strictly a street but it is still named as the old road to Fuente El Saz and the return route is, not surprisingly, referred to as the old road to Algete and as this lies within Algete parish (just), I think it counts. Poppies seen here. Better perhaps on large!

Another day another storm!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 21:05:01 +0000

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Low sun evening light, and I reckon we've had an average of two storms a day in the past 2.5 weeks. Highly unusual, especially in late Spring / early Summer. And yet they don't bring much, if any, of the prayed-for sustained heavy rain.
Perhaps better on large for countryside detail, even though the mountains are obscured by cloud.