Autumn Benches

 Along the path that skirts the irrigation channels of Las Fuentes del Marqués (Marquis' Springs), in Caravaca de la Cruz, wooden benches wait in silence beneath a canopy illuminated by the leaves of London plane trees (Platanus × hispanica). The ground is blanketed in a crisp carpet of coppery, ochre, and golden hues that blur the edges of the path.