Wintery Days

 Fields full of colour .  The  green vegetation scattered with daisies, mauve anemones and tiny flowers, deep purple, and red

A peaceful world.  Very few quad bikes with noisy tourists break the peace at this time of the year.  The locals are friendly and always give you a smile and a 'yiasou ti kaneis ' (g'day  how are you) 

Blue skies.  Without the heat.  Greece enjoys over 250 days of sunshine, so they say.

Time to talk with the animals.  Cats and sheep, chooks, turkeys and the herd of goats.  I always chat with the 2 dogs who live in our road, tell them off for barking at me.  I'm not exactly a stranger around here

Deserted winter beaches full of fascinating flotsam 

At the Temple site the wild greens are thriving

This local couple are filling a bag with a variety of greens to take home and cook

The bay below us with it's winter rubbish. 

 Not as much as I thought there would be.  Lots of bamboo. Not so many old shoes and plastic bottles this year. 

I couldn't go down and poke around . The rain has made deep channels along the bank which are treacherous for me

Wild flowers amongst the ruins

This cat looks well fed
He gets fed I think by the owner of the sheep next door along with a dozen other moggies
He just sat there in the late afternoon sun watching me 

This small flock had escaped from their pen.  They just stood there, undisturbed,  turning their heads to watch me as I walked past

Neglected grapevines 

The elderly owner has let Mother Nature take over

The flooded harbour 

This happens every few years.  After days of rain the sea levels rise and pour in all along the waterfront.  A salty lake 

A few days later it had all dried up