HB posing at Mycenae. Spring in Greece is a riot of wild flowers. The blooms push out from cracks in rocks, invading ancient and important archaeological sites, turning the grey stacks of rubble into something out of a psychedelic dreamscape.
Poppies pop up everywhere. And people are tempted to pick them up. The stalks are not easy to break off though because of the furry surface.
Among the ruins of Larissa fortress above Argos (above)...
...and the ancient pile of rubble in Mycenae (above), once ruled by Agamemnon, the brother-n-law of the legendary Helen of Troy, the wife of Menelaus who launched a thousand ships.
A fire hydrant picks up the red of poppies in a park in the Marousi suburb of Athens. But poppies aren't the only blooms that run wild in spring.
But by summer, most of these flowers would have died off in the unforgiving Greek sunshine.
