In my last post I was still in Athens but today I returned back home at Crete. It has been one whole month since I left and I was eager to walk at the fields around our village and see what has changed during my absence. Nature seems to be dormant, as it should be at the middle of winter but at a turn of my route I had the most warm welcome that I could wish for.
An almond tree in full blossom, screaming that spring is in its way!
I have to admit that I was expecting to see something like that but it was even better than my hopes! It is one of those little things of rural life that I witness every year and yet they never cease to amaze and excite me! And of course I had my camera with me to enrich, a bit more, my already vast portfolio of almond tree bloom pictures!
I am living for 9 years in this area and till now observing the circles of nature was the obvious thing to do. After the first couple of years I started to take it as granted, as something that I will always have the chance to do. But life tends to take unexpected turns and drift us in new, unknown paths. The wind of change is blowing in my life too and this year I am observing the repeated and so familiar changeability of my surrounding in a more conscious way.
Every year I watch the same trees transforming from a naked wooden skeleton, to a white vision, every year I take pictures and the most important, every year I take valuable lesson about life itself. And if next year I'll not be around to experience all that by myself, the memories and knowledge of all those years will always be with me!
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