Roja tejado de tejas

From street level I may live in a pueblo blanco, but from where I gaze out on to the world there is more than white. Red and terracotta roof tiles are such a distinctive part of Spain. I'm thinking of writing a play "Cat on a hot tile roof". Tennessee Williams would be proud of me.

Factoid: Felix Lope de Vega Carpio (1563-1635) The exact output of Spain's most prolific dramatist is unknown. He allegedly completed between 1,500 and 2,000 dramas, of which some 426 plays and 42 autos sacramentales, or one-act religious dramas, still survive. Lope de Vega created the mode for European drama, plotting in 3 acts with his denouement coming midway through the 3rd. Of an Asturian peasant background, he wrote for the masses with a graceful, flowing style, mostly in verse, which combined the elegant phrasing of the nobility with the crudities of the peasant. The resultant product, with its effortless rhythm, was so perfect it gave rise to the expression, Es de Lope ("It is Lope's"). His plays were ambitious and full of earthy passion. He created a blend of the serious with the comedic, and gave his characters--especially the women--the traits of being both shrewd and commonly wise.

Lope de Vega read Latin at 5 and translated Claudius when he was 10. When 12, he had completed his 1st 4-act play, El verdadero amante, and 3 years later was off to fight a war in Portugal. Next to Cervantes, who called him the Monstruo de la Naturaleza (the "Monster of Nature"), his reputation in Spanish literary circles was unmatched.