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southern greece
26.6.15
We had an early breakfast so that we could be at the archaeological
site by 08.00 to beat the coach parties.
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Juniper
Cicada
We saw a Tree Grayling on a trunk
Capparis spinosa
Campanula andrewsii
Bull
The cat greeted us then went about his toilette
The cat who walks by himself
Grasshopper
Pomegranate flowers
Pomegranate fruit
Phagnalon rupestre
A fuzzy nuthatch
Cotinus coggygria
Papaver rhoeas
Smoke bush
Pinus alopensis
Figure on the frieze
Large Wall Brown
We went
on to an area to look for the Grass Jewel
Shrine
Seedhead
Delphinium peregrinum
Grass jewel, the smallest blue
Graves
Grass jewel
Small
Copper
on brambles
Bellardia trixago
Grass jewel
Verbascum speciosum
Dead carpenter bee
Nemoptera bipennis
What a wonderful beastie, like an early aeroplane
Painted lady
Shield bugs
Asphodel tenuifolius
Small copper
Linum suffruticosum subsp. salsaloides
Allium amethystinum
Euphorbia myrsinites
Ceterach officinarum
Poterium verrucosum (sanguisorba minor subsp. magnolii)
Centaurea triumfetti
Agrimonia eupatoria
Trifolium
Blues mating
Polygala venulosa
Spotted fritillary
Small copper
Eastern wood white
Teucrium scordium?
Cephalanthera rubra
Cephalanthera rubra
Gladiolus illyricus
Buttercup
Lathyrus nissolia an annual vetchling
Gladiolus illyricus
Helleborus cyclophyllus
Looks like a red deer's head?
Cephalanthera rubra
We returned to the hotel and Peter and I
went out round the town.
Oleander
Capparis spinosa
Another good meal at the restaurant this
time a vegetable casserole (Briami) with feta on the
side. It contained potatoes, so chips are
not the only available form.