Sat 12.Feb.2011
Rhodes, Greece
Random pictures from the recent pre-Spring, which is now back to overcast and threatening rain. There's worse.
As I type, I'm listening to a pair of acoustic jazz guitarists who are
playing a fine upbeat set for our rather crowded little room on this
Saturday night.
Who would believe what the afternoon sun can do for a trash bin liner?
There is a waiting shelter at this taxi
station - curious, because I have never seen this station without a
dozen or so taxis ready and waiting.
Inside a drive-through arch at the head of the Street Of The Knights (Odos Ippoton).
The street itself is of great historical importance, but rather sterile and uninteresting to a casual tourist.
A colorful Ottoman-style building, of which one corner projects out over Socrates, the major tourist trap Street.
It is visually more interesting than the mostly tacky shops below.
Under the projecting corner is the entrance to Saint Fanourios, a narrow cobbled arterial that leads to my home square.
The burl behind the eye in the first
picture is the "nose" in the second picture. Some artist has put
uncannily good eyes on both sides of this old sycamore, and turned tree
bumps into noses.
When the moon is not yet full, it rises by daylight behind these byzantine arches.
These feathered fellows belong to a restaurant on the "second" town
square in the east part of the old city. Sadly, their wings are
clipped. Necessary, but still sad.
They are a long way from their ancestral home.
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