Monthly Archives: August 2018

Worshipping Our Pilgrimage

Posted in: Architecture, El Camino de Santiago, Outdoors, Photography, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 29, 2018 at 6:16 pm , by Laurie Merritt

I’m an agnostic, so I claim neither faith nor disbelief. There is a simple backstory as to why and how my friend and I chose this hike...

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High Winds Protection

Posted in: Architecture, Color Photography, Colors, El Camino de Santiago, Outdoors, Photography, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 28, 2018 at 1:51 pm , by Laurie Merritt

Rocks get placed on top of the tiles at the bottom of the roof to protect from high winds. If the first ones were to fly, the...

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Zariquiequi, Spain

Posted in: Architecture, El Camino de Santiago, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 27, 2018 at 9:08 pm , by Laurie Merritt

Surrounding landscapes, street scenes and a lunchtime break at the local store/albergue. Tidbits of info: 1) Before arriving in town, and fairly intriquing was a lone dead tree...

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Fishing along the Camino??

Posted in: El Camino de Santiago, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 26, 2018 at 6:39 pm , by Laurie Merritt

Apparently so, however, no jerks at either end of the lines! What’s up with that? (You know… that joke that asks, “What’s fishing? A jerk at one...

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Tractor Trails

Posted in: El Camino de Santiago, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 25, 2018 at 10:28 pm , by Laurie Merritt

A moment’s stop on the Camino to soak in this view of the hilltop village of Cizur Menor, Spain. The village, the trees surrounding the village, the...

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Centrally Located

Posted in: Botany, El Camino de Santiago, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 24, 2018 at 8:38 pm , by Laurie Merritt

Closing in on a couple of tall trees in the midst of the fields. ...

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In the Dale

Posted in: Botany, El Camino de Santiago, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 23, 2018 at 6:33 pm , by Laurie Merritt

“If the path be beautiful, let us not question where it leads” – Anatole France (French poet, journalist, novelist, and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature)....

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Pamplona Valley Scenes

Posted in: El Camino de Santiago, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 23, 2018 at 1:01 pm , by Laurie Merritt

The hilltop village of Cizor Menor, where the 12th century Romanesque Iglesia San Miguel resides; stops along the trail; looking way back toward the Pyrenees; an intriguing...

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Encouragement

Posted in: El Camino de Santiago, Flowers, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 22, 2018 at 9:06 pm , by Laurie Merritt

No doubt placed here by a fellow pilgrim to inspire the countless others who would come across it on El Camino de Santiago. This silly plastic symbol...

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Guendulain, Spain

Posted in: Architecture, Botany, Colors, El Camino de Santiago, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 21, 2018 at 6:07 pm , by Laurie Merritt

Farmlands and the ruins of Guendulain. Just off trail was this abandoned small village; only the ruins of the church and small palace remain. Some of the...

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For Emerald Waves of Grain

Posted in: Botany, Colors, El Camino de Santiago, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 21, 2018 at 5:20 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Scenic Rural

Posted in: Botany, Colors, Commercial, Creative, El Camino de Santiago, Flowers, Landscape, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 20, 2018 at 9:53 am , by Laurie Merritt

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Looking back…

Posted in: Commercial, Creative, El Camino de Santiago, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Panoramic, Photography, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 19, 2018 at 8:39 pm , by Laurie Merritt

… at Pamplona’s skyline from El Camino. 3-image panoramic shot....

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Morning Departure from Pamplona

Posted in: Architecture, Botany, Colors, El Camino de Santiago, Flowers, Friends, Landscape, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scenic, Spain, Travel | August 18, 2018 at 10:44 pm , by Laurie Merritt

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day” – Henry David Thoreau Pamplona to Puente la Reina – 23.9km The first leg of the hike...

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INFRARED RHODYS

Posted in: Botany, Colors, Commercial, Creative, Flowers, Infrared Photography, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants | August 16, 2018 at 7:37 am , by Laurie Merritt

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