Spanish Lavender and granite

What a beautiful photo - the granite looks like a turtle with the lichen just adding to the markings.

So it does, Jenny!

Exquisite capture!

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Many thanks, William!

Thanks Fenja!
Well, they are now called Spanish lavender - as in my photo title! - (lavandula stoechas , range; central and southwest Spain and Portugal).
But they were, until a few years ago thought to be the same as a wild species of lavender native to other parts of the Mediterannean area especially Provence and called Procençale lavender. (They do look and smell exactly the same!). But DNA profiling showed them to be be different species.
Interesting fact: the two top petals are not petals at all but modified leaves!

Lovely flowers; well captured.

I can see the turtle too...............and I love the flowers!

Isn't it fascinating that people "see" so many different things in the granite landscape: animals, people, giants, etc.

ruikt die net zo lekker als de franse ?

I don't think so but it is competing with thyme and marjoram and roesmary!

A beautiful combination of colours and textures Andy

Gorgeous!

A. Beautiful. Composition.