Sat 24.Dec.2011
Rhodes, Greece
Christogen (really - Christougenna!) is all but apon us;
the solstice has already passed.
The rainy - and occasionally thunderous - season is here.
Good old human spirit brings light and warmth nonetheless.
A tree on a rock in the low winter light, in the section of the old
city where The Knights themselves lived.
A Byzantine-era wall separated
the knightly quarter from that of the slaves, mercenaries, Greeks, and
other riff-raff whom the knights did not entirely trust.
The wall is still mostly there. It was at my back as I took these two
pictures.
Ents dancing on the day of the solstice.
Gravity 1 - 0 History
A guide book describes Recep Pasha's Mosque (since 1588) as one of the
most elegant and graceful of the many old mosques of Rhodes. It is also among
the most ill-preserved. About 3:00 Monday morning, a significant piece of it
collapsed.
In classical mosque fashion, this one has a square (cubical),
domed central hall. At the front is a high, vaulted and arched
"front porch" area for people to remove their shoes before entering
the prayer hall.
It was the left half of this front porch that collapsed Monday
night.
Looking lengthwise through the "front porch" from the collapsed end.
Before the collapse: props under one of the three arches of the "front porch".
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