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On our drive to Germany a couple of weeks ago we stopped at a small petrol station about an hour north of the Spanish-French border and scattered around the forecourt were all these beautiful boxes of Petunias in full flower. The photo was taken in a rush on a small snapshot camera so isn't perfect but the ambience is wonderful.

The other day we went for a walk in the countryside and while I was standing next to a rock looking at some flowers, I saw to my amazement an ant on the stem, and it was guiding the aphids, basically farming them like a shephard with its flock.

A quick read of Wikipedia tells me that the ants protect the aphids and milk them using their feelers, and when the aphids reproduce, the ants will take their eggs back to the ant hive and look after them, then carry the young aphids back to the plants to start the process again.

The other day we decided to take a drive down one of the little side streets that leads out of Ronda, just to see where it would take us.

You can imagine our joy when it actually took us down to the bottom of the gorge and a bit further away than you normally get from the Puente Nuevo so that we could get this photo of the cliffs from some really weird angles.

It just goes to show how deceptive flat ground isn't. When you walk around the old town of Ronda you don't really notice the slope, but standing down at the bottom of the gorge looking up it is so noticeable.