5 o'clock shadow

I've been thinking about design for living after yesterday's blip about house shapes.

Now the hour has gone back, the sun has already disappeared behind the Teix and the Southern end of the Tramuntana range. The shadow looms over the town. In a few weeks I guess I'll be doing a rush down to the lighthouse at this time, for a view of the sunset over the sea. Waiting for the children outside school today, I saw the mother of one of Ben's classmates. They live up the mountainside on the 'American Road' (built for easier access to the Port from the U.S. radar installation on the top of Puig Major). That is on the left part of mid shot. She pointed out that at this time of year, they have much more sun than the valley. Mid winter, they will very probably get snow, but right now they are sunbathing! And I was thinking of the place we stayed at in July, which is the wrong side of the valley for winter, but at a similar height. (On the right hand mid shot.) That house will have very little light now, but its position saved us from burning up in the summer.

Some people spend winter here and the height of the summer elsewhere. Others do the reverse, depending on their origins. Locals sensibly have an olivar thay can retreat to in the summer or go shooting from, or tend the sheep or goats in the winter. One day...