#somiedo

Dia Internacional da Biodiversidade Urso-pardo (Ursus arctos) Para marcar este dia, em que a Biodiversidade deveria ser bastante mais abundante no nosso país e na esperança que, quem de direito crie condições para voltarmos a ver estes animais nas nossas serras, deixo-vos uma fotografia de 2 irmãos ursos que fotografei em Somiedo, Espanha. Embora um esteja quase escondido, ele está lá. Podem…

wild horses, somiedo, asturias, spain, aug 2020

Lagos de Saliencia.

Kodak Portra 160

Somiedo, Spain

Okay! I said that i would post braña photos!

These are photos of La Falguera, one of the few summer brañas that remains inhabited. Many of the residents of La Falguera were part of the Vaqueiro minority that practiced arriería, transport of goods by mule, and they specifically transported grains from León to southwestern Asturias.

The second is Veigas. It is technically not a braña, it is head of the parish but it appears that all of the xaldo residents have left and all the residents today are Vaqueiros who have built some Vaqueiro structures. The xaldos left, looking for better economic prospects but the Vaqueiros, who have an ancestral connection to the land, their brañas in the mountains directly above Veigas, moved into Veigas to be close to them.