Scouring the fallow landscape around the Llobregat river and the Rub stream near Barcelona with her 8 x 10 camera Janelle Lynch born 1969 searches for evidence and omens of natures life cycles. Her photographs of anthropomorphized trees walls of litterstrewn vegetation rocks and disintegrating leaves all taken during a fouryear stay in Barcelona between 2007 and 2011 are informed by three figures whose texts are excerpted in this volume Roland Barthes particularly his discussion of mourning in Camera Lucida Charles Burchfield whose pantheistic painterly animations of landscape have much inspired Lynch and Wendell Berry whose essay on approaching nature with respect and humility helped to further hone her process. Barcelona is also conceived as a homage to Lynchs grandmother who died in 2008 and to the victims of a devastating flood in the region that occurred in 1962.