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| April and May are the best months for wildflowers in Portugal. Last weekend we drove four hours to the western tip of the Algarve-- a remote and dramatic area on the Atlantic ocean. We spent the weekend eating tasty seafood, drinking remarkably good and inexpensive wines, walking, and taking photographs of beautiful flowers and stunning landscape. What a wonderful way to spend a weekend! |
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| Daisy-like flowers came in every color from purple to... |
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| ...blue, yellow, pink, and white. |
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| We'd call this Queen Anne's Lace back in the Northeast, but here we believe it's Wild Carrot. |
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| Anybody have any idea what this beauty is called? |
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| Sea Daisy. |
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| Ice Plants are gorgeous but invasive succulents. They come in yellow and pink (pictured later). |
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| Jim taking one of the 600 photos we took over the weekend. It was hard to whittle these down to just 15 photos for this blog! |
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| Ice Plants in pink. |
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| Bromeliads were in full bloom. |
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| Car nestled in a field of flowers. |
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| The Atlantic is just beyond the cliffs. We're doing a separate blog post on the Algarve scenery, which was fabulous. |
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| Rocky fields were wild and beautiful. |
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| This hibiscus-like flower has sticky dark green leaves. |
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| We took this shot at 8:00 pm, just as these Ice Plants were closing up for the night. They may be invasive, but aren't they lovely? We hope you are enjoying Springtime and Mother Nature, wherever you may be. Hasta luego, Deb and Jim |
