On the way back we stopped off at Nossa Senhora da Graça do Divor, a small village just off the main road to Arraiolos, with a sixteenth-century church:-
We stopped to photograph a lichen-covered gate:-
And a track flanked by stones:-
Before turning off down a mud track in search of a fourteenth-century manor house in the middle of fields:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Wonderful photographs and the sky almost unbelievable blue.
Here Here , Have so enjoyed these photographs
I particularly like the Azure Blue wainscoting on your last two posts. Is it a coincidence or an agricultural treatment like pink washing in Suffolk. ?