Fri 28.Dec.2012
Rhodes, Greece
Christmas day was clear, cloudless, sparkling, and almost warm.
A day to get out and savor, while trying to walk off some excess kilos
I've accumulated over the last few years.
It is a delicate balance between keeping up enough pace to be aerobic, and
slowing down often enough to savor the day and place, and get a few photos.
First though, a few moments from the drizzly-but-interesting
Christmas eve.
I woke to a trio of Santas beneath my window, in front
of a crumbling Ottoman mosque.
Christmas Eve was, of course, a time for reflection.
Yes, I am over-working that joke, but it fits the occasion,
and the images aren't bad.
A sparkling, cloudless, Christmas Day.
A sight that works close up and less so.
Along Sophokleous Street
It's Ripple Time
The board walk along the Kolonna harbor is smooth enough to minimize
jarring to the spine and ankles on a fast walk, and the boards are softer
than the concrete or pebbles in most of the other areas.
Anyway, the harbor is chock full of neat sights on most days.
You cannot see Jupiter by day light, but it is right up there near the Moon.
They are fast approaching conjunction, which they will reach sometime around
dawn.
Even by midnight, they will be close enough to make a spectacular overhead
finish to a clear winter day.