Enchantment

The flat this morning was freezing, and was too tired after a bad night to do justice to all the computer work I needed to do...

But, walking up to the Land, it was all so beautiful, I felt like entering every photo in Markus' challenge; they would surely qualify as enchanted? Storks flying over a field thick with yellow flowers; newborn lambs leaping; red asparagus berries soft in the slanted light; sunshine sparkling the olive trees... 

This was on the way back, looking down from the castle ramparts. The two triangles you see in the centre, with a stone wall between them, form the top bit of our land. The sheep who thinks the grass is greener on the other side belongs to our neighbour, Rodrigo. The chapel on the crest is the São Sebastião hermitage, which gives the name to the bottom half of our land.

Refreshed by a nap in the sunshine, came back and wrote an article about Mourão's patron saint, Nossa Senhora das Candeias (Our Lady of the Light, the light being Jesus in Simeon's song, the Nunc Dimittus, in Luke 2:32), requested by the Padre (brave man!) for the local paper. Her feast day is the 2nd February, the biggest event in the Mourão calendar.