Home Again.

 Just returned home from Spain today!

We left September 5th from Boston Logan Airport and flew to Lisbon, Portugal arriving on the 6th.  From there we changed to a flight to Malaga, Spain.  We picked up a rental car and drove north to Priego de Cordoba where we had an apartment until Wednesday September 20th.  Flight home was the reverse except once we arrived in Boston we spent the night at a local hotel before catching the bus to Lebanon, NH where our daughter picked us up.

Jet lag outgoing was a bit rough to adjust to.  Coming back a bit easier though I'm writing this with heavy eyelids.  Need a cup of tea and a nap.  The time difference was 6 hours.

Many pictures to share of our wonderful wanderings through Andalucia and specifically the historic small towns starting with Priego de Cordoba.

 

Welcome Autumn!

 

I repurposed this dried out Christmas wreath as an Autumn wreath for the house.

It still has a balsam fragrance to it even though it's two years old.

Leaves started changing colors in late August which is still a surprise for us because summer in Maryland where we used to live extended into October most of the time.

Reading Material for Traveling

   I love to read so can't go anywhere without taking some books.  I also signed up for access to online books at Libby and Hoopla but really prefer actual books in hand not my phone.

For the trip to Spain I had to consider that books may weigh too much so when I stopped at the Free Library I found three paperback books of interest that once read I can leave behind for someone else to read.

I'm familiar with the authors Dick Francis and Linda Greenlaw but not Raffaella Barker.  I started the latter's book to see if I'd like it and I think it will do.  If I need more there may be books left in the apartment we have, at least that was the case when we traveled to Barcelona.  Then as a last resort there are the books online to find.

I'm ready!

Update: Oops! No I'm not.  After packing these books discovered my carryon was over the weight limit. Things had to come out like the water bottle and three books.  Instead I downloaded books on Libby and Hoopla.

Campfire

 This was our first and last campfire of summer '23.  How did that happen? Rain and more rain! Sometimes inches at a time.  

This campfire was spur of the moment.  Grass had not been cut for a week so it was long. Rain scheduled for the next day after having had rain the night before.  I had dismantled old wreaths so had lots of combustibles to burn.  We had just the right amount of ingredients for s'mores. My son in law had scrap wood from his summer-long project that needed to be burned. 

It was this day or not at all.

It was the perfect evening and a great ending to summer.