Gone Tree
Thursday morning, up early after an early night, wind blowing, roof tiles rattling, bits and pieces to do, still waiting for furniture and carpet delivery but the Blue Star was in yesterday, so you never know, today could be the day. Today is, however, the day there’s a showing of ’12 Years a Slave” at Lefteris’ kafeneion (tonight) if you’re around and want to go and see it, and there is a crossword/quiz at the Sunrise Café on Sunday (4pm), so winter entertainments continue.
It’s not all been bad weather as today’s photos, taken on Tuesday show. It’s been warmer, with temperatures up in the mid-teens, but today we have our weekly storm. They’ve become a bit of a feature this winter, a new and named storm every week. I can’t tell you what the sky is like, apart from the fact it’s still dark, the shutters are again closed.
There’s some good news, for us, concerning a tree next door. It’s a large tamarisk tree in a ruin and about ten feet from our house and stands between us and the mansion house beside us. When I heard about today’s storm, where the wind was forecast to be up to force 10, I started to wonder what would happen if the tree blew over, and then decided it didn’t bear thinking about. The next day, yesterday, there were some men in the ruin, and they cut it down. Thought projection? Clearing the ruin for rebuilding? Chopping it up for firewood? Getting rid of it because it breached a sterna, possibly ours? I don’t know, time will tell, but what it also means is no more snow in September. It drops its white pollen or seeds or whatever usually for the whole month of September and last year, for most of October too. Not an issue except for people with allergies and both of us used to spend the months sneezing and suffering watery eyes. All of the above should be written in the past tense as the tree has now gone. I hope someone gets some good use out of the wood. Can’t say I am sad, September and October used to be maddening because of it, and I don’t need to worry about it dropping on the house.
