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Cafe Iruña, which figured so prominently in The Sun Also Rises - unchanged in a hundred years. Plaza del Castillo, Pamplona.

Pamplona is called Iruña in Euskara (Basque) - on the left a poster for a student worker movement, on the right a comemmoration of Lucio Urtubia, a Spanish anarchist for whom robbing banks was an honor.

Message meaning roughly 'homeward', referring to the effort by families of political prisoners jailed by Spain and France, to bring these prisoners back to prisons in Basque Country in order to make visitation more practical.

The Vias Verdes del Urola, former narrow gauge railway. Tunnels and bridges for hours on an easy downgrade...

Munitions factory in Gernika. One of the only buildings intentionally spared by the German firebombing April 26, 1937. This attack is thought to be the first example of Nazi terror-bombing of civilian populations, commissioned in this case by Franco, to break Basque resistance to fascism.
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Dryland farmer Mike Coffey checks the planting depth of hard red winter wheat that he hopes will germinate this fall, if the rains come.

Dryland farmer Mike Coffey checks the planting depth of hard red winter wheat that he hopes will germinate this fall, if the rains come.

Mike Coffey eases out of his 1964 Chevy grain truck. "We don't have anything new," he says, smiling. "The way things are going, I don't know if we ever will."

Mike Coffey transfers hard red winter wheat from a truck to his 30-ft grain drill. He is counting on fall rains to germinate and sustain the young wheat which will overwinter and provide next year's crop.

Harley Gardner and Melinda Greer sort broken beans and bits of foreign material to determine the grade of a load of pintos brought in by farmer Jay Allen.

Kurt Barnett, warehouse manager at Adobe Milling, guides farmer Jay Allen in raising his dump bed as irrigated pinto beans pour into the elevator pit.

Freshly harvested pinto beans take a ride up the elevator at Adobe Milling in Dove Creek, CO. Irrigated beans are the only bean crop from 2018.

Mike Coffey confers with his son, Nick, after adjusting the planting depth on their 30-foot grain drill.

Rancher and farmer Matt Forst points out details of herd genetics as his cattle graze irrigated land planted to oats. Despite irrigation, Forst will be reducing his herd this winter, selling cattle he and his wife's family have developed over generations.

Rancher and farmer Matt Forst contemplating his cattle as they graze irrigated oats south of Dove Creek, CO.

Fidel Lopez takes a break from managing the flow of wheat and beans through the labyrinthine systems of High Country Milling in Dove Creek, CO. Lopez has worked grain elevators in the area since the 1970s.

Fidel Lopez unrolls a tarp to cover a load of cleaned seed wheat at High Country Milling in Dove Creek, CO.

Nick Jones, 23, takes advantage of downtime to replace tie rod ends on Eric Guynes' 1982 John Deere 4440. "It didn't steer too good," says Jones with a grin. Guynes was waiting on fall moisture before making decisions about planting winter wheat.

Nick Jones, 23, takes advantage of downtime to replace tie rod ends on Eric Guynes' 1982 John Deere 4440. "It didn't steer too good," says Jones with a grin. Guynes was waiting on fall moisture before making decisions about planting winter wheat.

Vast tracts of dryland farm fields lie fallow, awaiting sufficient fall moisture to plant next year's winter wheat crop.

Vast tracts of dryland farm fields lie fallow, awaiting sufficient fall moisture to plant next year's winter wheat crop.

Grant Coffey examines Hopi blue corn from a test plot in his father's wheat field. The dryland corn was planted in the traditional Hopi way as part of the Pueblo Farming Project, which is a research collaboration between Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and Hopi farmers.

Young hard red winter wheat emerges from one of Mike Coffey's fields, helped along by a string of early October rains.

Wade Retherford adjusts a counterweight on the bean bagging machine at Midland Bean Company as Cole Raney runs a bag through the stitcher.

Andrea Holley in her store, Main Supply, which opened its doors in May 2018. She and her husband are dryland farmers, and in addition, she mows lawns and fixes chainsaws. The drought hurt business right out of the gate, but Holley is optimistic. "You just hang on and keep saying maybe next year is going to be better."

Farmer Steve Garchar jokes with Bruce Riddell, manager of High Country Elevators in Dove Creek. In his hand Garchar holds a receipt for a truckload of winter wheat, which he will begin planting that evening. Garchar is a third generation dryland farmer - his grandparents homesteaded near Dove Creek in 1921.
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Farmer Doug Wiley on his diverse family farm in Avondale, CO. Wiley raises vegetables and livestock organically, and manages a raw milk dairy.

Farmer Doug Wiley on his diverse family farm in Avondale, CO. Wiley raises vegetables and livestock organically, and manages a raw milk dairy.

Farmer Doug Wiley on his diverse family farm in Avondale, CO. Wiley raises vegetables and livestock organically, and manages a raw milk dairy.

San Luis Valley potato farmer Rob Jones tackles a broken set of belt sprockets on a potato piler machine. Jones has a passion for soil health, and farms only about a quarter of his acres at any given time - three quarters are in soil-building rotations.

Elena Miller -Ter Kuile raises sheep for wool and meat on land that has been in her family for six generations; Capulin, CO.
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