Yponomenta gigas caterpillars and web. I’d never heard of caterpillars that make cobwebs before, but these do. Like many others caterpilars in the family of ermine moths, they form communal webs. I suppose it discourages birds from sticking their beaks in. My book on Canarian insects doesn’t mention them at all, but then they aren’t easy to find unless you know where to look. They live on the Canarian Willow,…
The cloud waterfall.
cloud waterfall400 Jigsaw Puzzle Because the island sits in the trade winds, damp air hits the northeast of the island and has to rise, where it turns into clouds. Because La Palma has a north-south spine called the Cumbre Nueva, the cloud quite often reaches up to the ridge and then tumbles over as the cloud waterfall. This is extremely pretty, and best viewed from around the western side of…
Efficiency
Funny how fast it changes. I found the missing files, and yesterday I had a fit of efficiency: I ordered the prints and posted them along with the baby hat, a magnet for my sister-in-law, a birthday card for the kid I sponsor in Sierra Leone, and a letter. Phew! And after I came home I critiqued a friend’s story and finished the first draft of my own. I’m doing…
Argh!
I’m feeling horribly overloaded again. Since I spent the weekend having fun (gasp!) I’m behind with the housework. The Spanish have a very eloquent expression; “The house is falling on top of me”. That’s how I feel. I’m even more behind with the current translation. And I have a very nice problem in that someone’s ordered some prints from my website, and some of the digital files aren’t where I…
A Walk in the Woods
On Saturday I went for a walk in the woods at Cubo de la Galga. It’s one of the most famous walks on the island, but it’s the first time I’ve been. Well it was lovely. The path starts out as tarmac, one car wide, and turns to a dirt track the smae width, butt here was no chance of getting lost. It was all uphill, but we were all…
Santa Cruz Tourist Office
When I first came to La Palma, the tourist office was in temporary accommodation in the third floor of an office building, with absolutely nothing at street-level to indicate where it was. Basically, you had to ask a local to find it. Obviously this left something to be desired, so they put up two signs: one at the south end of town pointing north, and one at the north end,…