Colourful Symi

Pedi Bay as seen from the top of the Pedi Valley on Sunday.
There was no wind for sailing so that large gulet is motoring past the entrance of the bay in the direction of St George's Bay.  The water taxi from St Nicholas to Agia Marina is just identifiable by its white wake in the middle of the entrance to the bay. The valley is still quite green as the dust of summer is only just starting to settle.

The grapes are swelling on the vines that shade courtyards throughout Greece.
Fresh leaves for dolmades too.

June is the month for Oleanders.
Indigenous to the Mediterranean, pikrodaphne as the Greeks call them flourish in the wild in dry water courses, riverbeds and rough verges.  The road from Yialos to Chorio is lined with them and they are a glorious sight in early summer.  These were photographed in Lieni.

This lonely inflatable water wing found a prickly resting place among caper thorns and nail-ridden timbers outside a ruined house on the Kali Strata.  Probably blown off a balcony somewhere, I hope the child who lost it finds it again before it is too late.

Plumbago is a South African import that has made itself very much at home under Greek skies.

The old baklava shop on the Kali Strata, behind the Old Markets Boutique Hotel, has had a facelift recently.  It is no longer open for business but occasionally the old doors to the shop downstairs are open and one can see the old display cases.  Those are pebbles and shells on the top of the railing.

Have a good week.

Regards,

Adriana