Today we awoke to perfectly clear sky and skipped breakfast since it’s served at nine and we wanted to get going early. Left at 8 and headed north via a different route to another French border crossing. We got to a large ski area with several very high scary lifts. It was sunny but the blasting wind and chill made it pretty difficult to do much, particularly photographing flowers. As usual, no birds of interest, but we saw a patch of lilies very similar to our chocolate lilies: Pyrenean Snake’s Head, Fritillaria pyrenaica. Stopped at a bar and got a burst of French when we ordered coffee. Maybe we’ve crossed the border?
Headed back towards our hotel and drove into the national park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido and entered an area that looked like a mixture of Yosemite and Utah: conifer and deciduous tree-covered slopes topped with orange cliff tops. There are many interesting hiking trails and areas to explore.
Got back to the Casa and actually had a few hours to relax! Campari and soda and my sketch book in hand, I sat on the terrace with Mimi the cat and enjoyed view.
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Aragon is the type locality for the mineral Aragonite...see any examples?
This is a relatively rare and unstable variety of calcium carbonate. It is also the mineral that is deposited by shell forming organisms that is mistakenly called calcite by most people.
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