I was surprised too by how camouflaged the subject is when I looked at the image. I considered explaining it in the caption.

I suppose that it's inevitable, given your nomadic lifestyle, that things will periodically go missing but your luck with your wallet is, in its way, even more remarkable than the saga of my tires last summer. I'm glad that it once again turned out alright in the end.

It took me quite a bit of careful examination before I could make sense of this image. it's a very interesting composition.

And yes, "yuck" is the correct description.

It looks reminiscent of the stairway up to "The Penguin's" office in The Blues Brothers, but much nicer.

Jacinto and I were just talking about the Grampies' journal last night, and the castle they saw in Moura. We will not stop there, but pass on through. I gave Jacinto an early assignment of photographing the castle there. He said perhaps by that point we would be tired of castles.

He is already mentally planning a second return to Europe. I told him if he is tired of castles by Moura, then what would we look at if we returned a second time. He is quite sure that the castles in France would be different than Spanish castles!

Yes - castles are on our minds!

Did you buy a lottery ticket after finding your wallet? Your luck was running strong!

I'm off for Tucson today. I will be there by 11 AM, plenty of time for a bike ride. The only problem is the 97 degree high temperature! There's a heatwave all across the west. I enjoyed a 70 degree ride at home yesterday - capris and a long sleeve shirt - no jacket, Buff, etc. It was delightful - but I'm definitely going from one extreme to another!

Yes, after your comment I researched myself and found the same thing. It looks to me though like pajara and trulli are more or less synonymous though.

A little more research told me that although they are sometimes referred to as nuraghi, that is incorrect. In Salento the structure is called "pajara or pagghiara". Are you in Salento?

One of my students here once told me he had an 'eepa'... it took a minute to figure out what he was talking about.

Stations of the cross? We have something like this in Bavaria.

I think they are called nuraghi, usually associated with Sardinia but I read that they can be found in Puglia, too.

It might be a henway.

I picked up a can of IPA for you today.

Sadly, no. Alcohol is recognized as a triggering agent for arrythmias, so I’m a strict one-a-dayer now. It’s an adjustment.

Getting off the main tourist trail is always a good idea. Italy is one, big outdoor museum.

A masterpiece.