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hawkwing_lbI walked up Lykavittos hill this evening. It is a very steep hill, but worth it for the view of the whole of Attica spilling out before you once you rise above the trees.
All the spring plants were flowering in the woods. White woodruff, and camomile, and rosemary and sage, and mint with white flowers, and yellow toadflax, and purple deadnettle, and a yellow flower that looked like a cross between gorse and laburnum, and a tiny deep blue flower, and a scattering of little red ones. Ferns, too - black spleenwort, mostly, with some bracken. Some juniper bushes. And many other things which I cannot identify even with the aid of the googlemachine.
(Dear universe: I wish I had a handbook for the flora of Greece. No? No? Okay, then. No it is.)
It's so freaking beautiful. I wish I'd brought my camera, but just walking was wonderful.
I believe I have figured out how come I am breathless and not so great at the running thing since I've been here. The air quality in Athens is pretty shit, even compared to Dublin's city centre. (It is somewhat worse than street level that one time I was in Manhattan, by me. Not much worse, but somewhat.) And I do not live in the city centre, at home. I has the country air, and the sea air.
So I think I may be walking mostly. And maybe hiring a bike, if I get out to Aegina.
All the spring plants were flowering in the woods. White woodruff, and camomile, and rosemary and sage, and mint with white flowers, and yellow toadflax, and purple deadnettle, and a yellow flower that looked like a cross between gorse and laburnum, and a tiny deep blue flower, and a scattering of little red ones. Ferns, too - black spleenwort, mostly, with some bracken. Some juniper bushes. And many other things which I cannot identify even with the aid of the googlemachine.
(Dear universe: I wish I had a handbook for the flora of Greece. No? No? Okay, then. No it is.)
It's so freaking beautiful. I wish I'd brought my camera, but just walking was wonderful.
I believe I have figured out how come I am breathless and not so great at the running thing since I've been here. The air quality in Athens is pretty shit, even compared to Dublin's city centre. (It is somewhat worse than street level that one time I was in Manhattan, by me. Not much worse, but somewhat.) And I do not live in the city centre, at home. I has the country air, and the sea air.
So I think I may be walking mostly. And maybe hiring a bike, if I get out to Aegina.
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Date: 2012-03-27 02:35 am (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentiana
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Date: 2012-03-27 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-26 07:38 pm (UTC)Nothing much in flower here yet apart from primroses and celandines, and a shy violet or two. But the celandines are making up for the flower shortage by being a very shouty 'LOOK HOW YELLOW WE ARE!' yellow.
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Date: 2012-03-26 07:42 pm (UTC)Ah, celandines. Such a bright flower. LOOK HOW BRIGHT.
:)
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Date: 2012-04-24 06:16 pm (UTC)And I finished Thucydides! Yay! The last bit, after the Persians got involved, was just SO tedious!!!
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Date: 2012-04-24 06:30 pm (UTC)More power to you. I have never finished the bastard.