Wed 31.Oct.2012
Rhodes, Greece
The celestial dance goes on. The end of October is here already. Short pants
weather is over and done.
Fall in Rhodes isn't bad though. Just ask the group of Scots who are visiting
this week!
Where's the Dog Star?
If I am paying attention, I can see this view of the white minaret
on my weekly walk to the laundromat.
So high, you can't get over it
So wide you can't go 'round it
You gotta come in by the door.
The way the Knights of St. John built, or had their minions build, you'd think
they were hoping to hold off half a million Turkish warriors.
If memory serves me right, it was actually more like 600,000.
Happy Halloween
a holiday few locals here have heard of.
In honor of the occasion, a hibiscus costumed up as a Frankenflower.
We had the strangest thunder-and-lightning show I have
ever seen the other morning, an hour or so before dawn.
Sustained lightning, flickering like an old neon sign, thunder like a long jazz percussion
break. Not particularly earth-shattering, but so ongoing. A good twenty minutes or
more as the system drifted leisurely across the island,
accompanied by rain light enough that I could open my shutters, and watch the
light show against
the cloud ceiling, without flooding my floor.
Never saw the like of it.
Betcha this didn't take many years of med school.
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