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CRETE

Thursday

8.10.09

Lovely warm morning light another hot day to come!

Do you have a little something for a hungry sheep?

Typical water heating device in the village

We went up to 'Thea' to see what had got caught in the moth trap and learn the plan for the day.

Rather battered Convolvulus Hawk-moth

After collecting provisions in Souda, we went up to the Omalos plain

Grass

Eucalyptus

Myrtle fruits

Smilax aspera

Smilax aspera in fruit

Carlina graeca seed head

Colchicum cretense

Crocus laevigatus

Crocus laevigatus

Rock patterns

Dandelion

Shield bug on thistle

Cretan Grayling

Colchicum cretense

Cretan Grayling

Bellis perennis

View from the top of the ridge

Leaf detail

We drove to the pond and found a few flowers and frogs and saw some birds, but not so many as our last visit in April 2008 (click on button)

Centaurea calcitrapa - new shoots flowering

Not much water left in the pond

Carlina curetum flowering again

Scilla depressa

Scilla depressa

Ononis

Scolymus hispanicus

Last verbascum