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| Friday's Dracunculus vulgaris in all its odiferous splendour. |
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| A donkey, head down among the daisies near the sports facility. Whoever has that vegetable patch to the left of the donkey has a lot of weeding ahead as the rows of onions, broadbeans and artichokes are awash with glorious wild poppies. |
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| Every old stone wall is a hanging garden at the moment. Various stone crops, tiny ferns, daisies and figs turn the tumbled down ruins and winding lanes of old Chorio into a wonderful garden at this time of the year. |
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| The grape vines have their new leaves and the housewives use them to make delicious dolmades. Fresh vine leaves are often picked and frozen or pickled in brine for use later in the year when the leaves on the plants are tough and lack that spring succulence. |
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| Poppies and figs in the Pedi Valley |
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| Hello! Is it me you are looking for? A tagged ewe wants to know who is taking her photograph. Note the furled dracunculi in the background, to her left. That is a really mean wild thistle to her right. Those are oregano bushes in the background. |
Down in the harbour the Symi and the
Panagia Skiadeni have started bringing day trippers over from Rhodes on a regular basis and there are definitely more people around. Foreign property owners are arriving to prepare their houses for the summer season so there are lots of familiar faces around. They are also surveying the damage from one of the wettest winters anyone can remember so there is plenty of painting and airing out of damp furnishings going on.
It has now been dry for about a fortnight so doors and shutters have shrunk to more normal proportions. The long range forecast shows lots of wind but no definite rain so we are unlikely to have more than one more downpour between now and October. Temperatures are still fairly cool, just hovering above the 20 mark and there is not much difference between day time and evening temperatures.
Have a good week.
Regards,
Adriana
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