Recent Posts Tagged With 'atlas mountains'

• Country Road

  Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 06:15 in countryside, spring, atlas mountains

  This  school boy  was running beside the car on an unpaved roadnear a friend's farm about half an hour outside Marrakesh towardsthe Atlas Mountains. How lush the landscape is....

• The Road to Marrakech

  Posted on Saturday May 10th, 2008 at 01:47 in farm, olives, atlas mountains, bled countyside

  Late afternoon, leaving the farm after a lovely quiet day.Down a dirt road where the children are coming home from school.This really doesn't look like Morocco at all.Mediterranean olive groves, lush fields watered by run-off snow from the Atlas Mou...

• Gracious Hosts in the Countryside

  Posted on Monday April 21st, 2008 at 02:13 in hospitality, decor, morocco, roses, peacocks, atlas mountains

  There is a huge walled garden full of old olive trees and a long drive bordered by luxuriant roses.Some of the roses need dead-heading to make more and better ones - even though there are plenty already.The old-bat English lady-gardener in me determ...