Saturday 24 August 2013

In Crete this summer

 ... there were bold primary blues



and reds


a whitewashed villa with a deep terrace to protect from the fierce Meltemi wind


steep, stony hillsides dense with olive groves



winding roads dipping down



through tumbledown villages


narrow alleys overrun with climbing bougainvillea, jasmine, spreading vines


cheery geraniums, plumbago and pansies, orange trees and foraging cats


ancient ruins in beating sun, a din of clicking cicadas, the sound of summer



all paths leading to the sea


where a table at the edge of the water


always seems to be waiting


at any time of the day


Crete, July 2013


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