The bare crags merge into soothing pine forest, which in turn becomes the scented littoral zone of the maquis, and then the final transformation into the abyssal aquamarine of the open ocean.
This is the long view from the mountain and shows the ecology poised on the edge of an Andalucián winter.
All around the landscape is expressing its vivacity with the reemergence of the greens.
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Photo: Bolonia from Betis. Courtesy of the author.