Ist May, May Day today, a beautiful day in Athens and along with much of the population we decided we were going to do what we normally do on this day... go up to the mountains around Athens and sit in the sun and spend precious quality time enjoying nature and picking wildflowers for our May Day Stefani!
We decided to leave the officials from the IMF and the EU to do their work, and joined all those not protesting in Syntagma Square against the austerity measures to be imposed because of the economic crisis which seems to have taken over all aspects of our life in Greece.
We decided that we would protest in our own way, by not letting it affect our lives negatively ... and had a lovely day!
And yes, in case you are asking, we did stop at a nice cafe on the way down from Pendeli Mountain and we did enjoy a leisurely afternoon coffee in the sun... much to the chagrin, I'm sure, of all those who would shut out our sun and have us sit inside our houses crying at our fate...
Αs we all know, tears do not become Electra and we are all descendants of Electra...
The only depressing part of our excursion was seeing the young trees which we had all planted over the last few years burnt and blackened after last year's destructive fires on Pendeli.
The encouraging part of that was seeing that natural regeneration is indeed taking place...
The miracle of nature in all it's glory!
We gathered our flowers and carefully made our May Day wreath...
The finished product ...
And because the flowers all around Athens are in bloom, and we need as much beauty as possible to brighten the doom and gloom of the days ahead, we thought we would add some of our garden flowers too...
Hope your day was as beautiful as ours!
Καλή Πρωτομαγιά!
Kali Protomagia!
Happy May Day!
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