Phase 0-Day 2, A walk along Rio Segura

Today we decided to walk through the countryside rather than the village.  A bright and beautiful late afternoon it turned out to be as we walked along the Segura River.  Last September the Gota Fria hit us and the area we walked was totally inundated and the river burst through its channel walls, cutting our town off by flooding three out of four roads.

Anyway, other than noticing the repairs to infrastructure, one couldn't tell what had happened.  We just enjoyed the flowers and songbirds. 

If this page looks haphazard, it's because I haven't figured out how to reliably move images.  Oh, well...take it or leave it.

Spain: Easing Lockdown-Phase 0, Day 1

Here's a shot of Callosa de Segura taken at about the same time as the sunset one, below.  Top is today, the first day of the lockdown easing and the lower was taken on the actual day it started.  I had thought it was taken the day before, but we were out unknowingly. 
Anyway, Callosa hasn't changed, we have.  The world seems drab now, colorless, unsafe, arid.  While we were happy to be out wandering around, we felt alienated from those whom we encountered.  Hellos, if uttered, were muted, eyes averted fearful or distrustful.  We all kept our distance, easily, which was in stark comparison to photos I had seen of crowds in Madrid "distancing socially".  As if!  I wonder when the second wave will hit, even worse; what the second lockdown will do to us.

But, for now, we're soaring.

Lockdown in Spain-Day 48, 73rd birthday;House Arrest

This is what it feels like for us here in Spain.  Fortunately this is the last day of almost complete sequestration.  My birthday seemed pre-climactic, but then after seventy-two priors, what's the big deal?  It's the living in between which counts.  Tomorrow the in-between gets better as we will be allowed to exit our homes for other than absolute necessity. 

I'm going to fly over the cuckoo's nest.  

Tomorrow Isabel and I will go for an hour-long walk, but that will be after I do an hour's worth of cycling.  I wonder how that will feel after about a week of relative inactivity after the "great Everest Climb".  If it hurts, it will be a good hurt.