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January

Stormy seas

 

Mandragora flowers

 

Dried Verbascum flower

 

Snails on a dried Verbascum flower

 

An olive grove and the White Mountains

 

The archaeological museum of Chania

 

Chania harbour - Early morning light

 

Olives ready for harvesting

 

Seagulls

 

Chapel above the West coast of Crete

 

Close-up of Ruta chalepensis

 

Androcymbium rechingeri

 

A beetle in Androcymbium rechingeri flower

 

Trees in winter

 

Cape Krios seen from Elafonisos

 

Cretan Soldier Beetle (Lygaeus saxatilis)

 

Sea daffodils in Elafonisos

 

View of the southwest coast of Crete

 

Graves at the Allied War Cemetery of Souda

 

Snails on a gravestone

 

The bay of Kissamos and the White Mountains

 

The bay of Kissamos and the White Mountains

 

Final resting place

 

On the beach at Falasarna

 

Storm clouds in Kalathas, Akrotiri

 

Above the coast of Sfakia

 

Lifeguard hut in winter, Agia Marina

 

Anemone coronaria

 

Mandragora

 

Mandragora flower close-up

 

Bee in a mandragora flower

 

 

 

February

Olive grove in the spring with Oxalis pes-caprae flowers

 

Theodorou island seen from the beach of Agia Marina

 

The White Mountains seen from the summit of Psilafi

 

The summit of Psilafi seen from Strifomadi

 

Gingilos and Psilafi panorama

 

Chania seen from Profiti Ilias

 

Strawberry tree - Arbutus unedo

 

Entrance of the monastery of Agia Triada

 

View of Chania from the tombs of Venizelos

 

Grave of Eleftherios Venizelos

 

Summer afternoon in Loutro

 

Winter sunset, Kalathas beach, Akrotiri

 

Evening light in Tersanas, Akrotiri

 

Thunderstorm weather, Tersanas - Akrotiri

 

Thunderstorm weather, Kalathas beach - Akrotiri

 

Olive grove and storm clouds

 

Clouds above the hills of Akrotiri

 

Chania harbour early morning

 

Chania church and the White Mountains

 

Chania harbour in winter

 

Olive grove

 

Old olive oil factory

 

Mulberry tree

 

Euphorbia and mountains

 

Arches in the monastery of Agios Georgios Karidi

 

The Mediterranean Architecture Centre (KAM)

 

Kids at play

 

Park bench by a frozen pond, Omalos plateau

 

March

The plateau of Omalos in winter

 

Entrance of the gorge of Samaria at Xyloskala

 

The entrance of the gorge of Samaria at Xyloskala

 

Psiloritis and Cape Drapanos across Souda Bay

 

The gorge of Samaria in winter

 

Orange trees

 

Orange grove and flowers

 

Ophrys spruneri

 

Wind turbines at Petras Seli

 

Goats family

 

Tragopogon sinuatus

 

Early spring landscape

 

Sacks of olives

 

Wall of a ruined house

 

The road between Hora Sfakion and Anopolis

 

Beehives and flowering tree

 

Olive grove in the spring

 

Hora Sfakion

 

Hora Sfakion

 

The gorge of Aradena

 

Vegetation in the cliffs of the gorge of Aradena

 

Falasarna

 

Euphorbia paralias in Falasarna

 

View of the White Mountains from Anopolis

 

A sunny morning in Chania

 

Wild lavender

 

Crown daisies

 

Crown daisies at a roadside

 

An olive grove in Aptera

 

View of the White Mountains from Aptera

 

Ruins of a Roman villa in Aptera

 

April

New path section in the gorge of Samaria

 

Ruins of a Roman villa in Aptera

 

Falasarna beach

 

Cyclamen creticum

 

Silene colorata in a field

 

Rotary tiller in a field

 

Greenhouse cultivation in an olive grove

 

Yellow Ranunculus asiaticus

 

Blue lupins

 

A field in spring

 

First tourists at the beach

 

Pollen orgy

 

Goat portrait

 

Young goat in a bush of Jerusalem sage

 

Blossoming orange tree

 

Spring flowers near Livaniana, Sfakia

 

Ruined house in Aradena

 

Staircase of a ruined house in Aradena

 

Tulipa goulimyi

 

Swallowtail butterfly

 

Red ranunculus asiaticus

 

Asphodeline lutea in Anopolis

 

Asphodeline lutea in Anopolis

 

A light lunch by the sea

 

Red mites

 

Dirt road with crown daisies

 

Aethionema saxatile creticum

 

Ruined oil press in Aradena

 

Leaving Agia Roumeli from the beach

 

May

Queen bee

 

Venetian bridge in the riverbed of Samaria

 

The river of Samaria meeting the sea

 

Tree root on the beach

 

Leaving Agia Roumeli

 

Ruins of a Turkish fort above Agia Roumeli

 

June

Scrambling down a scree slope in the White Mountains

 

Marmara

 

The bay of Agia Roumeli

 

Pool in the gorge of Samaria

 

Iberis sempervirens

 

The summits of Tzelias, Melindaou and Kaloros

 

Silene variegata

 

A summit in the White Mountains

 

No entry sign in Chania harbour

 

An alley in the old town of Chania

 

Chania sea front at sunset

 

A field of wild carrot

 

In the gorge of Samaria

 

The southern end of the plateau of Omalos

 

The summit of Gingilos

 

Flowering Berberis in the Madhares

 

A cairn in the White Mountains

 

Snails on a rock on a mountainside

 

The path to the summit of Pachnes

 

Near Roussies on the path to Pachnes

 

The cistern of Roussies in the White Mountains

 

Mountain flowers

 

Balos bay at sunset

 

Chania harbour panorama

 

Chania lighthouse

 

July

Crepis sibthorpiana

 

Detail of Verbascum spinosum

 

Kalathas beach on a windy day

 

The church of Agios Nikolaos in Splanzia, Chania

 

Alcea biennis along the road to Omalos

 

The lighthouse of Chania

 

Panorama of the old harbour of Chania

 

Viola fragrans

 

Inside the White Mountains

 

The summit of Pachnes at sunset

 

Full moon rising in the White Mountains

 

Orthi Ammos beach, Frangokastello

 

Orthi Ammos beach, Frangokastello

 

Horse-drawn carriage in Chania harbour

 

An alley in the old town of Chania

 

Onopordum bracteatum ssp. creticum

 

An alley in Chania

 

Tiny but perfectly formed

 

Bee collecting nectar in a thyme flower

 

The road to Sfakia

 

The road to Sfakia

 

A prickly oak above Anopolis

 

A prickly oak above Anopolis

 

Dead cypress tree in the mountains

 

Dead cypress tree in the mountains

 

Walking in the White Mountains

 

August

A cypress at the tree line

 

A cypress at the tree line

 

Dead cypress in the mountains

 

Ancient kalderimi to Agia Roumeli

 

View of the bay of Agia Roumeli from Sellouda

 

Early morning on the road to Sfakia

 

Tigani to Balos - Gramvoussa peninsula

 

A butterfly on mountain flowers

 

Swimming

 

Flowering thyme in the mountains

 

Ancient quarry by the sea

 

Ancient quarry at the seaside

 

Rock samphire in Stavros

 

Ancient quarry by the sea in Stavros

 

On Stavros beach

 

The old town of Chania

 

Apple tree in Omalos

 

Monastery of Arkadi

 

Paleochora

 

Old quarry in Stavros

 

Old quarry in Stavros

 

Chania harbour at dawn

 

Fishing boats leaving Chania harbour

 

September

Fishing in Chania harbour

 

Chania harbour in early morning light

 

Sea daffodils

 

Sea daffodils in Falasarna

 

Sea daffodils in Falasarna

 

A cow in Crete

 

Rock samphire in Chania harbour

 

Sedum magellense

 

On the path to Agios Pavlos

 

October

Sea squills in Agia Roumeli

 

Detail of a Sea squill

 

Walking through a rock arch

 

Walking through a rock arch on the way to Gingilos

 

Rock spires on the way to Gingilos

 

Above Agia Roumeli

 

Above Sougia

 

In the gorge of Aradena

 

Stormy weather near Hora Sfakion

 

Storm clouds near Anopolis

 

A church roof and olive tree overlooking the sea

 

Chapel of Agia Irini above Sougia

 

Loutro

 

On the way to Tigani to Balos

 

December

The hill of Stavros, Akrotiri peninsula

 

Chania harbour

 

Chania harbour

 

Vineyard in Agia Triada

 

Ancient quarry by the seaside in Stavros

 

Coming back from the taverna

 

Goats on Balos beach

 

A glimpse of Tigani to Balos

 

Tigani to Balos and the island of Gramvoussa

 

Tigani to Balos and the island of Gramvoussa

 

Arisarum vulgare

 

Inviting!

 

Winter olive grove

 

Tamarisk trees on Stavros beach

 

Flowering on Christmas day

 

Teucrium brevifolium

 

Androcymbium rechingeri in Elafonisos

 

Sand dunes in Elafonisos

 

Marram grass by the sea

 

Sheep portrait

 

The bay of Diktynna on the Rodopou peninsula

 

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