Graffiti carved into stones at Cape Kolonna
This was the oldest one I found
Also very fine lichens
Texture study; different kinds of seeds and seed cases on the ground
Sunset from my balcony; the new moon is just visible between the uppermost pair of telephone wires
More old stone graffiti at the Sanctuary of Aphaea. This was the earliest one I could find, but there was a slightly earlier dated one in the site museum. I keep expecting to see "Byron" written somewhere, since I've often read about how mad he was about graffiti-ing everywhere. The urge eternal, to scratch your name on something. On Thassos I've seen graffiti carved by bored sailors in the 5th century BC, at the twin temples of the Dioskouroi at Aliki - Nikeratos was here kind of thing, plus a lot of dicks and other good luck signs
Wildflowers at the Aphaea Temple - I think this is a young caper bush
A few random old amphorae (?Roman) stored out the back of the Aphaea Temple museum
Part of the pediment of the second (6th century BC) Temple of Aphaea, reconstructed in the museum. Note the well-preserved colours; it was very brightly painted, in blue, red, black and green, all of which must have been pretty expensive colours at that time
More cyclamen
The great basilica of the local saint, Agios Nektarios
The Markelos Tower, built in the early nineteenth century but perhaps constructed around earlier fortifications (I'm finding conflicting information online) and very briefly the home of the first provisional government of modern Greece in the 1820s
The small boatyard just off the town beach
Two of the cats at the Captain's Rooms; mother and daughter, I think
And another Aigina cat having an afternoon snooze
The sea
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