Sat
15.Dec.2012
Rhodes, Greece
Mid-December is here, my very real virtual niece is getting her chem degree
tomorrow in distant Colorado, and I am so proud that I have been babbling
about it whether it has anything to do with the subjct at hand or not.
Also for mid-December, Rhodes turned cold this afternoon, and now at
midnight we are down to 5°C, 41°F. Any of you in Germany or Colorado will be
unimpressed, but for Rhodes this is a Big Deal.
Perhaps that is what turned tonight into the first classic warm, crowded
winter evening in the common room downstairs. Or perhaps it was the live
acoustic Greek music duo. A good sympatico ambience, at any rate.
The house mascot Ginger enjoying the sun on the wall of my little
porch.
Appearances notwithstanding, this is an unrelated cat in a different part of
the old city. I've shown these steps before; many cats seem to call them
home.
This is an unrelated wall in still another part of the city.
Many hibisci have succumbed to Winter, and one patch of them near the Palace
has simply been lopped off, but some are still letting their floral flag
fly, so to speak.
Does anybody know the real name of these red-tipped stalky plants? I was
raised to call them red-hot pokers, but I have always suspected
that was an ad-hoc name, and that my parents simply didn't know the real
one.
Some sights from this afternoon, out in the modern part of town.
Still in the modern town, furrin spellings of familiar words: Photovoltaic
Systems. Autonomous. I don't know that last long word; it is
not in either of my dictionaries.
Finally, evening back in the old city.
Here we are, having come full cirle, back on my little porch, watching the
sunset.
Happy graduation, Hon!