Spring is here... and already...

There are little purple flowers blooming like crazy in the front yard. Rain over the past week has turned the back yard into a swampland. But that rain has that nice spring smell to it. Weather has been warm enough to go without a coat... in fact it's colder in the house than outside... so a coat or sweatshirt inside is nice. The grass is a bit greener than before and soon there will be yellow daffodils all over the yard. This morning... before the sun rose, I could hear the birds... chirping away... if they were singing they need to find a better choral director though. Yup. Spring is here and I like it.

This morning, I've been watching "Breakfast with the Arts" on A & E. My favorite episode covering the South Pacific... with lots of island dancing. It's awesome to see - espeically as in the cultures shown, drumming and dancing are ways to tell stories. And I like stories. (And next on the travel channel is "Passport to Europe" - and it looks like this episode is about my favorite European city... Athens, Greece.

Oh, it's starting. With the Acropolis!!!! I remember my visit to the Acropolis. Standing in front of the Parthenon. In awe. And an annoying professor saying "Jeffrey, come back and listen to me, I'm telling you about the Parthenon". Not taking my eyes off the immense and ancient structure, I walked backward toward the sound of his annoying voice... thinking... "I'm standing in front of the oldest building I ever saw and he wants me to listen to his lecture... yeah right."

In awe of the Acropolis

(Photo by Jeffrey Fillion, January, 1990 Acropolis, Athens, Greece)

I went to Italy & Greece during the month of January, 1990. I saw soooo many incredible things I'd only read about or never thought about. Lately, I watch the Travel Channel... and there was a recent episode about Athens, Greece.

I remember going to the Acropolis. Standing in front of the Parthenon. My mouth open in awe. The two professors who were leading the college group I was part of... calling me to come back and listen to their lecture. Yeah. Right. I'm in front of a building thousands of years old... and they want me to listen to them flap their lips. I never took my eyes off the Parthenon as I backed away and toward the professors.

I don't have a photo scanned of the Acropolis. I did take photos... just didn't scan them. I did scan this photo. A broken statue of a male that I saw in piles of ruins around the Parthenon. If you look you can also see a horse's head on the left side.

So, the Acropolis... I'd say that it definitely ranks as one of the top ten of my own personal list of wonders of the world that I've seen.