As the season progresses the landscape has returned to life with an almost miraculous speed.
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The bare earth is already covered with a living, breathing carpet of plant life.
This rock for example bathes amongst one of the herbs of the Dehesa; the wild Oxalis.
Once a native of Southern Africa, it is now widely naturalised throughout the Mediterranean and is one of the great wild foods of hereabouts.
This wilding has a zesty punch, redolent of lemon and the skin of a Granny Smiths apple. Not only that but its acid yellow flowers make a beautiful and vibrant natural dye.
Its abundance thus reaches into our lives, should we wish to partake of its munificent nature.
Becoming familiar and participant with the edible, medical and practical herbs of our own ecology, is one of the ways to our personal rewilding and reindigenisation.
It is a way that we can connect to that from which we are actually and practically indivisible, our Gaian selves.
Photo: Oxalis pes caprae at Los Banos de la Luz. Courtesy of the author.