Rocky Rhodes
Sat 16.Jan.2010
Rhodes Town, Greece
End of the Rhodes
It is my last night in Rodhos for now. I sail tomorrow evening on the
overnight ferry to Pireas and Athens, then fly home on the 20th for the
month of February. If I pass the Big Bad Thrombosis tests, I'll be back
on this side of The Big Ditch (as the WW2 moves used to call it)
by mid-March.
![Last Quarter Moon moon behind silhouette of trees and tower](pix/2010/p1110855.jpg)
![Early Morning Cat cat silhouetted on rooftop](pix/2010/p1110859.jpg)
![Disco Nearby green laser rectangle outlines on wall in narrow street](pix/2010/p1120861.jpg)
Early morning moon and cat.
Night time lasers outside a disco bar.
![Dancing Plant spikes of spiralling grass plants, before and after](pix/2010/p1130864.jpg)
![Big Ol' Dandelion some kind of dandelion flower](pix/2010/p1130866.jpg)
![Ibrahim's Minaret Again white minaret behind tree branch](pix/2010/p1130867.jpg)
![Poplars bare poplar trunks and branches](pix/2010/p1130875.jpg)
![Off Season Restaurateur waiter stannding in doorway lookingg frustrated](pix/2010/p1130877.jpg)
It has got to be a worrisome life to be a tourist oriented restaurateur
in the off season.
This fellow is obviously a waiter. He
is almost surely the owner as well, because he could not afford
to pay an employee on the business he gets at this time of year. He
doesn't look happy and I can't blame him.
![Early christian Basilica shopping street frammed by sides of ruined archway](pix/2010/p1130893.jpg)
My local friendly "self-service" (in the Greek island sense)
laundromat. Those framing ruins belong to the early christian Basilica
of St. Michael.
![Old & New Time Religion white minaret framed in anciant stone archway](pix/2010/p1130895.jpg)
![Some kind of cedar? tufty pine-like fronds](pix/2010/p1130899.jpg)
![Cross, Pre-Rain silhouette of cross on a dome against rain clouds](pix/2010/p1150901.jpg)
![Curious Cat cat in grass under city wall](pix/2010/p1150916.jpg)
The Old City Moat by Wanlight
The sun is playing hide and seek behind the cirrus clouds. Let's see what we can find anyway.
![Moat Entrance stone stairs descending through arch](pix/2010/p1150917.jpg)
![Looking in the Back Gate motorcycle rider emerging from stone arch](pix/2010/p1150923.jpg)
![City Logo over Gate off-white stone panel with 3 coats of arms](pix/2010/p1150926.jpg)
This is the first picture I have ever "photoshopped". (Actually GIMPed
- GNU Image Manipulation Program.)
The cloudy indirect light made a flat boring color picture, but a
pretty good black & white one.
'Tis the stairs leading down into the moat from the "San Francisco"
city gate. The color pics look above and through the gate.
![In the Moat wan sun on wall, no sun on wall behind](pix/2010/p1150930.jpg)
![Watchtower worm's-eeye-view of round crenellated stone tower](pix/2010/p1150931.jpg)
![Rampart worm-s-eye-view: outer wall from moat](pix/2010/p1150939.jpg)
So... that is the Rhodes' end, so to speak, for now. Maybe the end of
these posts until March - depends on what pictures I find in
Athens and how much time and energy I have for them. I've been fighting
off a sinus cold for a couple of days, successfully so far.
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