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Yes yes…more kitties!

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Many things happened in the pas 6-7 months… One of the happy events was our cat Yoshimi giving birth to 5 beautiful kittens. Photos go chronologically from the time she was still pregnant to now that we are left with two of her kitties (Mingus the black cat and Nazca the white one). Also we are now the proud owners of yet another kitten (why stop at 3 cats when you can have four…). It has no name, yet! For the moment we call it Foufie, until we get to know her better and find her a proper name! Enjoy the parade of kitty photos!!!! This was taken a week before she gave birth This was an attempt to take some pictures of the kittens in order to find families to adopt them; she got so stressed we took them out of the nest that we had to quickly put them back… This is Nazca, she still ‘lives’ with us. Her new mother is going to pick her up in August. She is going to live in Italy! What a cosmopolitan kitty! The were too cute to put down.. And this is Mingus, the one we kept for ourselves! This…
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New year, new post

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I haven’t posted much in a long time, truth is it has been a shitty year for me and I am very glad it is gone. So here’s to a better one! I had to travel to Spain for family matters and it was a great opportunity to take some pictures! I find it hard to take pictures when at home and working so this was a good way to ease my way back into taking photos. I had with me the lovely RICOH GR camera which is A M A Z I N G for street snaps with an impressive result in colors.  I hope you enjoy 🙂 Somewhere above the Alps on the way to Barcelona: On the bus going from Barcelona to Zaragoza. I love front seats on buses, it looks like you are watching a cinema screen! Zaragoza was created by Augustus Caesar and originally called Caesaraugusta hence Zaragoza… I can’t help it, I find kitsch shop windows mesmerizing. I should get my ducks in a row (very bad pun. But intended.) THE most delicious tapas. Zaragoza has little to offer to a tourist but trust me there are some tapas bars that are worth it! “God…
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Easter festivities!

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This year’s Easter was extra fun! We had a lot of guests and a lot of cooking! The food was delicious and the wine even better…   Enjoy the photos: Discussions before dinner   The self-complacent teenager     Preparing the goat and Don Corleone is concentrating on its seasoning     and everybosy is taking photos of the spectacle!     The roasting of the goat has begun and everybody is having a beer     and a discussion whether A. is doing a good job or not…     Dessert was good!    

A walk around the island!

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It has been a long and hard week and this walk around the island was exactly what I needed on a beautiful windy yet partially sunny Sunday! Here are some of the photos I took today and some old ones in the end of the post:     THAT smile!   These two goats where locked up in an abandoned building.   We went for a superbly delicious lunch in Pandeli. I love all the shells stuck on the buoy, it looks like it was done on purpose…   ANd the mandatory visit of  the castle with its lovely view of Agia Marina and Alinda!   And an older photo I took in Athens of some out of focus lights. I call it ”where is you focus?”    

Remnants of summer and automn!

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I just emptied my phone from around 300 photos… Haven’t done that since August… So I decided to make a post with a selection of photos. Lilly sleeping and looking very comfortable in an uncomfortable position… A huuuuuggeee, fist sized, moth I spotted on the way to work on a hot August morning.   A last September swim in Pandeli. One of the things I miss about summer during the winter is not the weather (I hate summer weather) but rather being in the sea!   I designed this cake and the pastry cook realized it! One of the best meals I’ve had at the lovely Mylos restaurant!   When she is not wondering out in the ‘wilderness’ she is almost always sleeping…   And autumn arrived with some great storms… And yes autumn is my favorite time of the year! Perfect temperature and rain!!   And some great cloudy skies   In Athens for the Christmas holidays. It was really interesting how the city has changed in a matter of years!   CHOCOLATEEEE!!!   We tried molecular cocktails on my birthday.. I was not impressed, even though I absolutely loooovee cocktails   Aaaand back to the office….   I hope…
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Belated summer and autumn post..

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This summer has been the craziest and busiest one! Work has been exhausting but very satisfying! Summer was sweat and very hot! Met a lot of new and interesting people, saw old friends after a long long time, went to the beach a lot and drank A M A Z I N G cocktails (see photos below!).

A beautiful mojito

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Satsuma delight

 

Satsuma delight!

 

A strawbery cheescake in the makings

 

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Mojito & lemonpie heaven!!

 

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There is this anual exhibition of REALLY old vehicle every August! Some beauties are in display…

 

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And the ocasional pigeon flying around!

 

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What the past couple of months looked like

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In February was the Greek carnival! Here we have a good specimen of what homemade zombies look like!   and we also had Ash Monday, with a great meal of seafood..   I sometimes think she is plotting against us…     Spring is here     full of crazy colors   and the usual cat in the dumpster   crazy wild flowers I wish I had in mygarden  

Random snaps that were left behind since last spring!

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So I decided that in order for this blog to seem still alive I will post a few snaps from last spring until about a month ago… As I still cannot find the time to upload proper posts I have decided that for the moment I will post snapshots (which are very often taken with my phone)! Enjoy 🙂   First spring coffee under the sun!! Easter Sunday (a big deal in Greece) and little brother woke up late The rollings on cement Summer full moon can be majestic It gets so humid in the summer that the road is literally shining When autumn comes and it gets a little gold she always comes to sleep in the bedroom. As for the rest of the year she doesn’t care about us Making pomegranate liqueur for Christmas! The easiest gift, recipe here! I woke up to this… Cute and scary at the same time! Don’t let looks deceive you he is a little devil! Sunbathing after the storm Oh hi, are you sitting on the computer? Oh well I’ll sit on your keyboard… Yum yum!!  

Summer is over…or is it? Plus wayyy too many cat photos

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Summer is technicaly over… But is it really? Weather is good, most of the days you can even go tot he beach.. ANd anyway I worked crazy a lot this summer.. I finaly have some free time so I refuse to accept that summer is over yet!! At least until it rains or the first time! 😛 End of August was my father’s birthday and we had lobster spaghetti.. DELICIOUS!!!   In the summer we see a lot of these little gecko like lizards. In Greece they are supposed to bring luck and once they get in the house it means you will have guests  🙂     Cats have been sleeping a lot since the temperature dropped a little…   This one has been sofa hopping!   Changed my route to work and discovered this gem neoclassical house!! Stunning!   She sleeps a bit messier than the other one…   On a night walk we discovered this cat on top of the tree.. It was pitch black and had to use flash to take a look… This the outcome A little street on the way to work!     This little guy was trying to attack our cat… Sadly…
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August snaps!

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So, it has been a really busy summer for me.. Working a lot! I haven’t had time to relax and it makes me a little jealous of all the people spending their days at the beach and their nights out! But what can I do… This is the time I work most.. I will just patiently wait for winter to come.. 🙂 Aisha relaxing on a Sunday morning.. Cuteness to the max! Maffy or Mafalda or Big Muff… A lot of buterflies where I live.. It like a dream every morning! Yes, this is a chicken and yes it is in the midle of the street… Home made freddo cappuccino     Construction has finished, owners have moved in and it looks spectacular!!       Detail of the new house we built!   Morning dew.. Humidity reaching crazy levels (98%)   Bees having breakfast 🙂  

Time slips away..

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Yet another belated post.. Time slips away when you are busy. Many things have happened in past few months. New house and new ventures have kept me busy. These are a few photos I have gathered from these last months 🙂 A visit to the Castle on a sunny spring day   We found pretty flowers   and we played with the wind   Leros mills   The cat found her place on the fridge   My plant had amazing flowers!!   A day at the beach! First time in years I went really early in the morning at the beach. It was very beautiful and very private! I see this bougainvillea every morning on my way to work! Waiting for clients… They were late and I got bored! Again on my way to work spotted this beautiful flowers. I think the plant is called osier…   At the construction site it is full of butterflies. I think they seek the coolnes of the water used…

I have been playing around with photoshop.

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So, this week I spent a little too much time in photoshop (considering I had a crazy amount of work to do..) As you can see I discovered ‘actions’ in photoshop and I went CRAZYYY… I even remade old photos. Photos that weren’t nice at all, suddenly became interesting Out of focus images and bad quality ones Cute ones and some even cuter… I have forgoten the time she was so small… I even tried to make romantic ones and borring ones were spiced up! Cuteness never stops…