Just hours after the first rains, the landscape blushes modestly with the burgeoning of new life.
The latency of seed is released and the intense green spreads over the parched earth.
Slowly, tremulously the leaves reach to our day star and the roots anchor the delicate plants into the soil.
The great symphony of the dehesa has begun and one that reaches its crescendo in the magnificent flowering of Spring.
Photo courtesy of the author.