This week there were no trips, just life around here.
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On Wednesday night we had a wine tasting at the office, as we do every month. This time the daughter of the owner of the bodega that presented its wines also mounted a photo exhibition at our office. Here are two of my colleagues looking at the pictures:
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Last week I showed a dog wash at a petrol station. But our dog gets her bath together with one of us:
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Cheeta likes to be lathered and massaged:
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Saturday morning I went for a walk downtown to see a photo exhibition and do some of my own image hunting. Here is a little girl who evidently knows where she wants to go:
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Anti-racist graffiti left over from May Day. The text says, “Native or foreign, same working class”:
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While I walk my dog, I sometimes stop to refuel at one of the many local bars. Cheeta does not like those interruptions:
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Here is another local bar–clearly it has seen better days:
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Every lock in Spain seems to be plastered with little adverts for emergency locksmith services, even this one which is obviously never going to need such service:
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During our walks, Cheeta and I are often confronted with fierce guardians of the houses we pass:
The last three images are from this weekend, which has been somewhat spoiled by spells of rain–our first precipitation since February. While I wish it did not rain during a long weekend such as this one, it does provide some photo opportunities, and more importantly, it is sorely needed to alleviate the water crisis faced by some parts of Spain.
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Because this area is so dry, nobody thinks much about drainage when constructing parking lots or roads. As a result, when it rains for more than an hour, water accumulates:
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No bathers on the beach this morning:
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But the sun always reappears, here on my roof terrace:
