"Whenever you ask if you can do a job, please answer yes and then learn how."
Franklin D.
Roosevelt (1882-1945), American statesman.
We stayed as usual at 11 yesterday in the Plaza Square home today, and after a simple and short conversation with Gera but no less enjoyable we head towards the source the hairdresser who as you know is located in the Dove Valley.
To get there we have chosen the path of the small marsh creek leads attached to the Dove into the path of that comes from the road and takes a few hundred meters Cuatro Caminos below.
When we got to the source we got a big surprise, there is no source or anything like it to be completely covered with weeds, but we know it's there and get as close as that we see is a stone, the rest is covered by grass and brambles.
began to clean the grass with scythes and bushes with clippers and thanks to the freshness of vegetation managed to open a path to the right of the source and we can see that has water and in abundance.
far we have cleaned half on its right side but this and if it looks like a fountain and a source that despite having seen so many times ever impressed me more, not only because of its age, say it's time Arabs or perhaps the Romans, but the sentimental value that this source is for all cadalseños that for hundreds of years and centuries have been drinking from the water after a hard day at work or in their journey through this land who were once forced to step way from the highlands of monumental Ávila and Toledo.
And almost without realizing the hairdresser takes on a image very different from what we find on arrival, once clear of brambles and other weeds dug all around, but respecting a clump of reeds and willow that has grown with her and that we can so that in the near future given moisture in the area can provide shade for hikers increasingly stopping to quench their thirst at this fountain.
And this is how it looks once cleaned up the environment and even within these babas that breed in water and in this case made it difficult to draw.
After finishing plant vinca sprouting maior taken there, to see if we are lucky and clothing to be given a somewhat more lush.
oranges then accompanied by a good drink of water from the source of the hairdresser relax us and help us break the silence of the valley, interrupted only by a tractor that inevitably comes closer to us and that to reach our height and missed and perhaps thirsty and goes down to us with this intriguing to know that we do there, then the surprise is transformed into satisfaction and Ricardo
congratulates us and says a phrase that is rewarded enough to know ourselves what we have done; "Today there are very few people who do this no more" and then drinking water and becomes somewhat puzzled look around your tractor, starts and lost up the road.
And soon we too set off with the satisfaction of having done something because if not more, and because this source as so many of our people need it and why these actions we know that the source will always be there. Yesterday
were other people who cleaned it, now we are and I know that tomorrow and always, there will be people committed to Gallows and its environment that are selflessly willing to make this work just for the sake of Gallows and history, and only by the past and a future for tomorrow will be worth having spent these hours cleaning the famous fountains
Some pictures of the source environment is the last thing before leaving the place that now looks much more beautiful with the hairdresser in the foreground and Dove Valley Spring background or source in the green leaves of this old walnut tree neighbor who has for many years.
Again I want to thank Luisi and Jesus for being there when needed and always, and the rest of the team for one reason or another have failed today be with us and of course to all who are now devoting your time to read this and in supporting this effort with your messages.
many things we can do in a few hours and then enjoy them for years.
Zorro Corredero
Photos: Photo Gallery Pedro Alfonso
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