February Photos

 Our next door neighbour was still harvesting tomatoes till a week ago.  I think this is probably the last of them.  Any left on the plants will have been flash frozen after this last cold spell.  He did extremely well though to be still eating his own tomatoes in February.

Along with the tomatoes there were also a few green peppers and aubergines.  They weren't in a hot house by the way, just in the remnants of his summer garden

Every day there are half a dozen fires smoking away around us as everyone prunes their olive trees and burns off the smaller branches

One of the old deserted looking houses near us.  They are used by extended families when collecting olives or tending summer gardens and most are filled with stacks of dry food for the sheep and chickens or even a pig or two that are penned in the yards outside.  There is the necessary dog tethered underneath though this one does not bark and the chickens scratch between old broken plastic chairs, the remains of rusty fridges, stoves and piles of rotting doors and windows for repairs never carried out.  That's pretty typical.  Nothing should be thrown out but is rarely reused.

The very first sign that the seasons are going to change.

Blossom on an almond tree