My greek Winter

The island is green.  So unlike the dry brown landscape of a greek summer.  Roses are blooming though it is almost time to prune them right back.  I think I saw some snowdrops in the field next door.  

Cleaning a kilo of spinach outside on a cold winters day.  I must have been mad.  The spinach was full of mud and needed lots of rinses.   My hands froze but fortunately my shoes and trews didn't get wet which is usually what happens when I use the hose. 

This way the water gets tipped onto the garden and not into the septic tank.   Not that the garden needs watering.  We finally got rain, pouring rain, and an electrical storm last night which rattled the window panes.  Fortunately we pulled the plugs on anything connected with computers before the donner und blitzen hit us full force.  Neighbours didn't fare so well.

Spinach and rice for lunch and spinach pie tonight, and a few more nights if we don't have someone to share it with.  The pie is a spinach-leek-feta cheese pie with lots of dill, and plenty of pepper,  as I  discovered when I ate that first piece.

Our second load of wood this winter.  From last years olive pruning.  This is not a ton but that is how it usually comes.  A ton is the back of a farm truck piled high, or not, depending on how honest your provider is.  Now this wood needs to be moved around to the back of the house where it will covered and protected from any rain we might possibly have.

Our two lemon trees are laden with fruit.  This will the first decent crop for about three years.

The empty flower pots have a crop of stinging nettles.  I won't pull them out.  Maybe next time I make a spinach pie they'll be tall enough to cut and add to the mix.

Our green green garden, covered in three leafed clover, or maybe it is oxalis.  I like it under the trees and amongst the empty pots.  It makes a welcome carpet of green,  However this year I haven't done much weeding in the vegetable garden and the clover has almost smothered the lettuces.  I am 'uncovering' them one by one.