Another side to the Dog Palace

This weeks visits to the Dog Palace are a bit different. The person who set in motion, what  this place became is away for a few days. So it’s me and the other person who setup the place for three days. They do have another person who comes when I can’t. It doesn’t change things too much, I still do all but one of the walks, which is for the not so new guy, that’s Buddy. The Apricots on the tree near where we eat are about the size of golf balls now, the recent rain will certainly help them.

Victor, one of the old timers

It’s still windy but not so bad, at least it’s sunny. When we had that rain the other night, it fair tipped it down here I have been told. You can see its effects on the tracks and paths. It’s given the plants a bit more time, to get those seeds developed and cast about by the wind. There are a few poppies here but most of them on the island are by the sides of the road, giving us a red ribbon on either side of the tarmac or whatever the road surface there might be.

Here is looking at you kid

On the last walk, the Diva decided she wasn’t going to walk with us. So off we went and turned off down a track covered in flowers of all colours. A little way down it, heard another set of feet on the ground. I turned around and the Diva decided to join us after all. To get to us, were a set of path choices. She sniffed us out perfectly. We were at least two kilometres from where she decided to join us after all.

Fritz and Max

I am hoping the rain here will have found its way down to the reservoir or be on its way. The water in it will be being used now, I have seen several fields that have crops needing water and bring irrigated. There is one I go past, as I enter Livadi with onions, tomatoes, squash and beetroot all relying on that water. Because the other person is not up here, I am having more contact with some of the other dogs and them me. It’s all part of the rich pattern of life that meets me out of my front door every day.