Thu 03.Dec.2009
Paleohora, Crete, Greece
Last leaves falling
![YA Palm dried palm buds, and frond](pix/2009/img_7563.jpg)
![Pruned bare smalll branches](pix/2009/img_7575.jpg)
Some pictures from the last pre-storm day. I like them too much to
leave them out.
Wind and Rain, tell me why...
![Santa Blue display santa with blue and white fairy lights](pix/2009/img_7586.jpg)
![Blue Light Rain reeds with blue and white lights in shop display](pix/2009/img_7587.jpg)
![First Winter Sunrise defalt alt text](pix/2009/img_7590.jpg)
This gift and trinket shop turns out also to be the
only laundry that is open for the winter.
First sunrise after the storm moved in,
seen from my balcony. You can see some rain marks on the glass door of
the balcony. It was not a good time to be working from outdoors
![Booming Wave surf breaking on breakwater](pix/2009/img_7616.jpg)
Amazing the photographic effects you can get from glare on a wet street.
![Parked White Car dark clouds behind white car](pix/2009/img_7622.jpg)
![Ex Lamp Post lamp post blown over by storm](pix/2009/img_7621.jpg)
![Street Puddle clouds reflected in puddle in street](pix/2009/img_7623.jpg)
The formerly glassy sea has turned distinctly lively.
Since that night, the street lights have been dark all along the
breakwater. This one for obvious reasons.
The streets are still loaded with puddles that make walking in sandals
a matter requiring care.
I'm all right; yesterday I replaced the umbrella that I had chucked a
month ago in Athens.
Bonus Flashback to Iraklio
![Gypsy Balloons gypsy woman selling metallic helium balloons](pix/2009/img_7137.jpg)
![Mortification boy holding mother's hand on city street](pix/2009/img_7138.jpg)
![default title defalt alt text](pix/2009/img_7143.jpg)
A gypsy woman selling balloons.
Reflections in a shop window.
Any other guy in town would have been
delighted to have this foxy woman
holding his hand. Her own son looked like he wanted no part in it.
My sympathies, Kid! Been there.
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