The Eastern Pyrénées, where the border of France & Spain is very close... about halfway between the brown hills and the snowy mountains. In the plain below lies Llivia, a small town that was forgotten in the treaty that transferred land between the 2 countries - it remains a Spanish outpost, with Castillian language, bars & cars, not even the Catalan that the rest of the French in the area uses! The photo was taken in Dorres, a village with outdoor thermal baths that have this view, a sulphurous lavoir (public clothes washing basins), and the jewel of Romanesque chapels, that is only open once a month for mass (3rd sun) These cloud pictures are from Prades, at about 6pm on the same day. The fiery mass was in the west, and the lenticular plate-like cloud was opposite it in the eastern sky.My friend Don says it looks like the Starship Enterprise with its cloaking device!
It's been a warm winter, hardly snow enough for skiing, blue sky, 18 degrees... the mimosa is just starting to come out in its yellow cloudy flowers. Pelargoniums from the summer are hanging from our terrace and the bougainvillea has survived!
