Urban shots

By the front gate, Valderrey, Algete, Madrid. Spot the swallow (or is it a tern or a martin? No prizes, just for fun!) The rose is named ALFRED SISLEY.

Segovia Province

Madrid Province. Originally on Panoramio 2016.

View from the kitchen, through the dining room to the terrace and the view beyond. A misty sort of morning so not so clear outside.

Old door and window. Maderuelo, Segovia Province. Night shot.

Algete Church on yet another very dull day. Iglesia Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion. One day I might even go in and have a look round.

Algete. A mix of municipal buildings, municipal plantings and private flats on the hillside.

Former hospital, now govt. offices. Just round the corner from where I lived till recently. www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/album/1277734

The Madrid water company Canal de Isabel II turned this old water depository into an exhibition centre. Fine if you don't mind climbing many steps! This is the top level of 5. Better on black.

I last took a shot here 6 months ago (I've moved out of the area). I thought there would have been more progress but it seems not much really. Full screen best for this I think. www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/album/1279798

Chinchón, a touristy little town 40 miles southeast of Madrid.

One of many such doors here. The waggon-wheel ruts show centuries of use. (* Maybe not so old. Please see José Manuel Polo's comment below.)

We are on a small hill and this is a prominent (recently built) landmark. It houses the admin offices of the local community.

The tall and thin sculpture to the right of the shot is called, irreverently, the Hypodermic Needle.

Bright light but perishing cold today.

A street in Algete just before the big freeze this winter.

Taken just before the big freeze. Ronald, sorry - I saw you gave a yellow star just before I deleted another upload which was the wrong one! Frustratingly, the HFF group is again closed to me. I read the reasons a while ago but I don't abuse the system. Just sometimes I need to go to bed early and I don't know what tomorrow will bring so I would have liked to add it to the group at 22.07 on Thursday evening. And I don't think that's so unreasonable.

An oldie, from 2012, first shown on ipernity in 2016. I didn't see it as HFF potential then but do now, seeing as I didn't have many fence shots early on!