Almond blossom. FIRST SIGNS OF SPRING

BOTANY

The almond bloom has begun in the Rioja Alta, where I live. The colors white and pink petals of almond buds, contrasting with the browns and dark greens of the mountains that surround me. In the background you can see the Sierra de la Demanda with their snowy peaks.

The "rising temperatures" has encouraged a process that will be widespread throughout the month of March. I leave some photos this afternoon with the first flowers have opened.

Although the coming days is expected a significant drop in temperatures, the flowers hold up to several degrees below zero, but once fallen petals is when the real danger starts as a simple pink can damage the entire crop of almonds.

Meteorological Data date: 04.03.10 WINE GRAPE ARAR Home

Air Temperature: MAX: 10.9 ° C Min: 5.9 ° C
Relative Humidity: 72 %
Accumulated Precipitation: 0.0 L / M2
Solar Radiation: 123 W/m2

AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE, WINE GRAPE ARAR EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH CHILE

GEOLOGY

We look at the scenery, mountains, trees and vineyards. Everything seems
static, we feel, wrong, everything is there from always immovable. But, quietly,

the planet reminds us that is alive with movement of the tectonic de plates,

displacing the South American plate westward in their away trip of no return
Africa. And suddenly there appears the first shock and with this and
following the world we knew, in a few seconds it changes, houses
collapsed, trees derribados, unused infrastructure cracks
huge open up new lands in the hills and creating
new depressions behind it hundreds, perhaps thousands of people see
truncated their future, their dreams, death suddenly.

This has happened in Chile, with the huge bond that unites uss
cultural, share the same language and tradition in wine
proof is that today we can find wines
Chilean anywhere in the world. It also ties us together
personal, and the colony of La Rioja and their descendantsentities that
living in Chile is the second largest in the world, second only
by those living in Argentina.

WINE GRAPE ARAR sympathizes with the tragedy of the Chilean people and their
surfers who follow this blog from Chile (rank seventh
particular place in our ranking of visits by country), the
we want that have not irreparably damaged.

To give us an idea of the magnitude of the earthquake (8.8 degrees on the Richter scale), as measured by NASA the earthquake has displaced hundreds of kilometers of rock in space greatly reduced by changing the distribution of the mass of Earth, moving the earth's axis in 8 inches affecting your rotation and affect the length of days, reducing these in 1.26microseconds.
These data remind us how insignificant we are and we all traveled together through the universe, aboard this planet.

Meteorological Data date: 28.02.10 WINE GRAPE ARAR Home

Air Temperature: MAX: 14.9 º C Min: 5.7 ° C

Relative Humidity:48%

Accumulated Precipitation: 0.0 liters / M2
Solar Radiation:180 W/m2