Darker sunsets & chiller days ahead…
We’re nearing the end of summer and you can already feel it in the air. I love these last warm days, before everything changes for fall and its colorful atmosphere. I actually enjoy every season, apart from winter past January ! Then it’s just a never-ending depressing gray weather, and for someone like me who loves colors, I just wait it out impatiently.
Catch a glimpse of my pets in the countryside, and the beautiful views we have when the sun is setting.
And then the storm hit !
If you’ve been following my adventures from a couple posts ago, then you know we somehow stranded ourselves on Spinalonga island, tried to bribe our way back to shore without any luck, until we bumped into the nicest boat guy who was sailing for a village named Plaka… and he only took us in because there was an alert being broadcasted for an incoming storm, and they stopped sending boats on waters.
Got to this beautiful seaside village, to dry ourselves in a café because we got drenched in the boat, under a crazy rain. Finally found a taxi to take us back to our hotel in another city, the pretty Elounda, and got not-so-suprised by the storm during that ride. Ran from taxi door, to hotel door, in already over two inches of rain. Ended up wet again, but at the rooftop restaurant of our hotel, with a nice cocktail. Delightful. In France we say “après la pluie, le beau temps” so I guess, good weather must be incoming now.
Some days I wake up and I see life in color. Sometimes the colors I see are so bright, they don’t even feel real. Sometimes, my mind sees colors that don’t exist… and some days when I wake up, everything’s in shadows. The deepest blacks overcoming whites, until there’s no more. Until it’s all just grey.
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Madison Kennedy 