The winterbournes are slowly refilling.
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These streams are dry for much of the year, detectable only as a sinuous line of faint green during the long dry periods.
Now they are coming alive once more!
These wild brooks, untamed or modified by the hand of man, transport life back across the slopes of the mountain.
This limpid pool is already teaming with life, and the larvae that have slept the summer long have now hatched and the water dances to their desire to breed.
Lilies, Irises, and cooling watercress are garlanding the banks of the streams with gratitude and beauty.
This is a place where landscape and people both truly know the value of sweet life giving water.
Photo: Winterbourne stream at Saladaviciosa
You actually expressed it well!