13th. Regiment of foot

The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) was an infantry regiment of the British Army which served under various titles from 1685 to 1959. Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles.

They fought at the Battle of Roucoux (October 1746) and the Batlle of Lauffeld or Val (July 1747). In both cases, the allied forces were defeated by the French. The regiment returned to England in 1747 and it entered a thirty-year period of garrison service in England, Ireland, Gibraltar and Minorca, returning to the British Isles Feb 1776. Sent to the Barbados Nov 1780 and returned to the British Isles in 1782.

...Spring is knocking at the door

 Felicia Amelloides, indigenous to South Africa has become natural to Menorca

 Watering trough for sheep in Santa Caterina farm.

New beams for the house'roof

Narcissus Tazetta and a walk to Mongofre.

Narcissus Tazetta is a perennial flower plant that grows from a bulb. Well known in the United Kingdom and other Northern European countries for their ornamental use. It is native to southern Europe, and in Menorca it grows in fields, meadows and garigue, especially in damp places.

 

I found those specimens on the path that leads to the salt flats at Mongofre.