Trying To Escape

we stayed in a beautiful little room with a great, and highly effective fire-place.  we started sweating and finally had to shut the flue in order to cool off.

i really enjoy taking pictures of water; i like the affect that it creates and the lack of control that the photographer has.

it was chilly and there was snow on the ground from the tops of the mountains to the streets of the village that we stayed in.

i would love to have had a wet suit and the chance to wade back into the river, the narrow canyon was cut beautifully.

Color

this is us by the car where we had just changed into our bathrobes to run to the hot spring.

the hot-springs were pretty built up, much more so than those down by the colorado river, where i had been when i visited vegas.  Still, the falls and the ice cold river right next to it made for a wonderful setting.  eleftheria and i both enjoyed standing bellow the cold falls, then jumping back into the hot water to feel the blood tingle through our bodies.

the system was really crazy, no sulfur smell, really fresh, and the hot water spilled out of the left river-bank straight into the cold stream.

I absolutely love the evolutionary traits that seeds have adopted to achieve better dispersal.

eleftheria named this one the atlas tree.  it really did look like tree was holding up the entire rock.

wonderful rock formations abound in the area; however, the quality was not, great and i am pretty sure that the climbing present in the area would be pretty dicey.

in an attempt to escape for a weekend, eleftheria and i borrowed a car and headed about an hour and a half north-west to an area just outside of vergina called loutra pozar.  a natural hotspring has made for a favorite destination for greeks from around the country.  it was the first time eleftheria and i had traveled just the two of us, since before the wedding; needless to say it was a wonderful weekend.