It is the second Sunday of the month so I am back with another flower portrait for ‘Hey Jude‘. Last Sunday I shared a favourite, and it is another favourite I am showcasing this week. I am fond of this one because of the smell. In February the Algarvian hills are covered in Almond blossom and it smells just like honey. The smell is incredible, as is the sound of buzzing bees which surround you when you approach for a close up.
There is a Moorish legend in the Algarve that the abundance of Almond trees is because of the love of Ibn-Almundim for Gilda, the daughter of a great lord from the north. Following their marriage she grew incredibly sad and began to wane away. There seemed to be no cure for her illness. Until one day an old man told Ibn-Almundi that Gilda was missing the snow-covered mountains of her homelands. Ibn-Almundi clearly was a clever man as he thought out of the box! Rather than moving to the north he ordered thousands of Almond trees to be planted on the hills surrounding the castle, and that winter Gilda’s health and happiness returned as the trees blossomed.
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It’s a nice story, isn’t it? 🙂
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Lovely tale . . . . .hope all is well with you today. Very cloudy down here in the south
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Aye! I managed half hour in the garden 🙂
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I saw a comment somewhere about you being seriously behind, but I can’t find it again? Hope it’s been good stuff? 🙂 Or shouldn’t I ask?
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I can’t remember at the moment what i wrote 15minutes ago let alone longer!!! Some good stuff and some not as good, but nothing horrid . . . . .:-)
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lovely photo Becky, just wish I could smell it 😌
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Thank you – if you have a pot of honey in house go and open it! It really is the smell 😊
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I love legends, Becky. You never know if they were real or not, but they always seem as though they were.
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That’s so true 🙂 I like to think this one was but would have had to have been an awful lot of mature trees he planted!
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Things grew quicker in those days… 😉
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Lovely story – and photos!
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Thank you so much Anne 🙂
By the way your comment ended up in spam for some reason 😦 Apparently some bloggers are finding their comments end up in spam regularly, so might be worth contacting Akismet if you have noticed that other comments of yours are not appearing.
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Thanks – I regularly check my spam and trash because I do find comments there; I’ll contact Akismet, thanks (plus I find some of the spam amusing)
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