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Sun? It aint shining around here anymore.
The photos below of 'fun' in the sun were taken ten days ago.
Now we're coming out the back end of another blast from Siberia. This storm has been named 'Okeania'.
I'm not sure where this name came from.
Oceania (with a 'c') ... are/is all those islands, Polynesia, Mikronesia, Melanesia, New Zealand-esia down in the South Pacific.
'Nesia' means 'islands' in greek.
Okean-us... on the other hand is a greek sea deity.
Okean-ia... is the female version but Wiki-wots-it doesn't mention a female sea deity of that name.
In our world right now it's wind and snow and ice. Nightly temperatures got down to a few degrees above freezing. Northern suburbs of Athens were covered in a layer of snow, harbours were closed for a few days, mainly in the windy Cycladic islands (Myconos, Naxos, Paros etc) and our wood pile is getting seriously low.
Everyone else in the northern hemisphere seems to be talking about the first signs of spring. I haven't seen too many signs myself.
The hydrangea has budded.
I sighted one lone anemone
This photo is lifted from the internet. It's far too cold to traipse out looking for lonely anemones. With this weather its probably turned up petals and died away back into a frigid mother earth
Yet ........
a week, or so, ago we ressurected a few summer chairs and set up the table on the balcony for a midday bbq
Sitting in the sunshine with a glass of wine
Cleaning the grill with half a lemon
The lemon cleans, sanitises and sterilises
... so they say
Meat, what else
This time next month it will be octopus and shellfish on the bbq. I hope, in the Lenten sun
Here hundreds of anemones bloom in the fields, this is one of my most favorite flowers.
ReplyDeleteI remember you telling us about your fields of poppies. The anemones come in clumps and disappear once the poppies arrive. You're so lucky to have fields of such colour
DeleteWow, you aren't *supposed* to have cold, in Greece!!!!!!! Tell Mother Nature that, hu?
ReplyDeleteBut you still saw a flower!!!!!!
Not here Babe! No flowers blooming, even for a while.... In the Winter we have!
You have so much snow. Your wood pile must fill a barn! Though you probably have central heating
DeleteGosh I could go some octopus right now! nom nom yum yum
ReplyDeleteWell, we'll be having plenty through lent. I'll post some more photos! Not quite the same.....
DeleteMeanwhile summer has no intention of going here
ReplyDelete36 degrees Celsius expected today
I would like it slightly cooler
And I’m over the extreme heat
Our wood pile is bulging so we are ready for when winter Does decide to descend on us
Heavens, you're still boiling down there. it's been a very long summer
DeleteYou certainly chose a good country to emigrate to. The good life.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm a lot of work though.
DeleteI may use the BBQ this evening. It'll be the last opportunity for a while as rain is forecast.
ReplyDeleteHope the weather is warm enough and dry for the BBQ. A sure sign summer is somewhere on the horizon
DeleteYesterday I was barricaded in the house by huge amounts of snow. Yet another blizzard. I crave spring...and flowers. Huh! And shellfish on the bbq, please,but I have never managed octopus.
ReplyDeleteOctopus is nice if it's prepared properly.
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