Rippling like the flanks of a great animal the whole landscape shimmers to the caress of the mighty Levante.
In this way the animate nature of this ecology is displayed for all to see and to hear.
These grasses converse in their own graminaceous idiom; whispering and rustling to the cadence of this wind.
They are telling the tale of summer and its increasing dessication.
Now the timbre has changed from the gentle swish of soft green grass to the dry husk rattle of straw like meadows.
Each season has its own unique sound and here in an Andalucián summer the wizened stems snap together like the hollow bones of a forgotten Spring.
Listening deeply, one is drawn ever deeper into the participative story of our own personal ecologies.
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Photo: Oat grass at Los Tornos. Courtesy of the author.