Spanish Supermarket
Getting fresh fruit and vegetables in supermarkets these days seems to be getting harder than ever before. Sure the supermarket looks clean and tidy, but the produce doesn’t.
I think I’m reaching the stage of wanting to abandon the convenience of just going to one supermarket, and instead go to separate greengrocers, butchers, bakers etc just to get food that isn’t homogenous like the supermarkets are increasingly foisting on us.
The picture is the fruit and veg aisle in one of our local supermarkets, the Mercadona near the railway line in Ronda.
Clouds over Germany
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.
Pretty Service Station
Ant Farmer
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.
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August 7, 2008 1:34 am | 
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