The summer specialists are starting to appear within the ecology.
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In this place of fierce heat, there are many plants that thrive within the Andalucían furnace.
Nature has imbued them with a near miraculous resilience.
From the driest and dustiest of soils, they raise their delicate blooms toward the day sky.
All around, the land shimmers to an unseasonably early wave of heat.
Within this, the flowers of the tiny sedums arise like oases in the desert.
Soon these meadows will be no more than straw, tossed around by the dervish dances of dust devils that move like djinns across this parched landscape.
The great wheel turns once more.
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Photo: Sedum at Saladaviciosa