Spring in the Alentejo

pictures taken between April and May 2006

Spring in the Alentejo is a wonderful time. There is new life everywhere. In the fields beside the road you will see lambs, piglets and calves interspersed with the most beautiful wild flower arrangements. If you look up at the telegraph poles and you will see the storks nesting too! People from Lisbon drive down to the region to behold this special time of the year.

Fields between Garvao and Ourique
Jacaranda trees coming into bloom in Ourique
40 C in the shade!
Ourique
Nesting Storks
A Neighbours Flowers and Olive Trees
Sunset by the Pool