Our crossing with nature

About 20 Km from Ávila, Peñalba Mountain Range spreads. It is an old range with small round mounts where human presence is easy to be found. Neighbours from Peñalba, a very small village built terraces on these mounts to grow their harvests. They kept cattle in yards surrounded by stone walls and planted fuit trees, mainly pears.
Nowadays, there is no agriculture any longer. Vegetation is scarce: thorn trees, blackberry bushes, small oaks and grass. Pear trees have gone wild and their fruit impossible to eat. Cows walk up and down the soft slopes and the old shepherd house is in ruins. From time to time, a bicycle, a mororbike, a quad crosses breaking the peace and silence and making rabbits afraid.
Even so, it is peaceful and sort of strange in this arid land.