Friday, August 25, 2017

Flora, fauna, and occasional landscapes in Greece

Olives - - they are everywhere in Crete (at Gortyn)


Cedar?

I have no idea what this is



Old olive tree - - the trunks get quite peculiar with age.  This one is 100s of years old

Old olives





Cicadas!






Cicadas

cicadas


cicada shells

More shells


Lemon

Phaestos




Olive farms near Phaestos

Cat  with butterfly

There is a cave on the right side of the double peak where the Kamares ceramics were found.  Allegedly this is the cave where the infant Zeus was hidden/nurtured



Part of the Boutari vineyard near Heraklion


Archanes



Octopus at a seaside cafe in Heraklion


Cicada at Temple of Olympian Zeus


Cicadas

land snail

More!

last one



Aegina at temple of Aphaea


Monastery of Agia Nektarios

Pistachio tree



looking at Stoa from Temple of Hephaestus in Greek Agora.  Mount Lycabettus in background

Acropolis from temple of Hephaestus

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