Pefkos Moods on a Cloudy Day

We don't often get cloudy days here when not accompanied by rain. When clouds arrive, so usually does the rainfall and then it clears up again. Just occasionally we'll get a day like yesterday, Sunday 29th January, when the sky was predominantly cloudy, with the sun peeking through only occasionally. Such days we tend to call "British" days; days when there's "no weather" to speak of.

Also unusual was the fact that there was hardly a breath of wind, rendering the sea as calm as during the summer months, making it much easier for those with fishing boats to use them in complete safety.

So, this post is largely a clutch of photos taken around Pefkos on such a day.  

Each photo opens in a larger view if you click on it. Right clicking on the larger view, then selecting "View Image" enables you to blow it up even further.

 Above: down the bottom of the lane which peters out on Ag. Thomas beach.

 Above: The fishermen were just tidying up after an excursion, having taken advantage of the calm sea to make a catch. They were just making final preparations to leave the boat at anchor and come ashore in the launch.

 The new villas being built right under the mountain, just out beyond the Palm Bay and Coralli are clearly visible in the one above.

 You don't need any explanations as to where this one was taken, I'm sure. A strange but comfy "quiet" hangs over this area during the winter months, although a couple of hundred people still live in the village, plus those who come down from town for the weekend. Apostolas supermarket and bakery is always open all through the winter months.

 Above: Cop a load of these beautiful anemones, which always brighten up the grassy areas from late December through to February, when the blood-red poppies take over, followed in spring by the huge, cream-coloured margarita daisies, giving the fields the "cheesecake" effect.

For the botanists out there, the yellow flowers seen in the picture above, which often completely carpet the olive groves in January and onwards, we've recently discovered are (courtesy of Wikipedia):
Oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda buttercup, African wood-sorrel, Bermuda sorrel, Buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, Goat's-foot, Sourgrass, Soursob and Soursop; (Afrikaans: Suring) [1]), a species of tristylous flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae. Oxalis cernua is a less common synonym for this species. These are the ones which the children love to pull and chew the stems, which taste of lemon.

 Above: A couple of local residents show off on the wall below the Lia Studios, next door to the Finas Hotel. 

The main beach, Pefkos, resplendent in fine sand, smooth sea and not a sun-bed or umbrella to be seen! You can tell from this photo, though, that a good cleanup is usually undertaken before the season begins.