![2018.06.20 - Gruissan](https://i0.wp.com/farm5.staticflickr.com/4858/45763668145_cec43aec9c_b.jpg?w=584&ssl=1)
If I’m really going to take my digital life off Facebook, I have to get serious about tending to a more distributed version of that site’s functions. Exhibit A is my Flickr account, which I’ve gotten lax with updating — I was almost a year behind with uploading images there! The holidays have been a good chance to catch up, though, and I’ve finished updating through a trip to Spain and France for fieldwork last June.
I was there to take samples of Medicago truncatula along the Spanish and French Mediterranean coasts — ridiculously pretty territory, even when a snafu with my car rental meant I had to do a fair bit of collecting by mass transit and rental bike. I flew into Madrid (with a layover in London), then to the Spanish coastal town of Málaga; then I spent most of a week in and around Narbonne, France, and finished with a day in Paris before flying home (again via London). It was my first time in both Spain and France, and my first time in Europe in more than a decade.
The whole collection of photos is posted in this album, but here’s a few more highlights.
![2018.06.17 - Medicago in the wild](https://i0.wp.com/farm8.staticflickr.com/7832/45954244364_9975d55455_b.jpg?w=584&ssl=1)
![2018.06.17 - above Marbella](https://i0.wp.com/farm5.staticflickr.com/4870/45954242184_c79b8a9236_b.jpg?w=584&ssl=1)
![2018.06.20 - canal path](https://i0.wp.com/farm5.staticflickr.com/4810/45763671145_aac365a83e_b.jpg?w=584&ssl=1)
![2018.06.25 - Basilique du Sacre Coeur de Montmatre](https://i0.wp.com/farm8.staticflickr.com/7899/46678743891_e8a06b6f7f_b.jpg?w=584&ssl=1)