May 1st long weekend

Thank you friends and followers for your comments in my last blogpost. It seems others too feel likewise!
So I will just go on ...my way!
May 1st was off school of course and since it was a Friday we took the chance to leave the city.
On Friday we went to my brother's beach house.
On the way I worked on the Stitch Enigma I want to take part in. You can find all about it in the side of my blog.

It was a glorious day!
When we arrived at their place you couldn't really tell if it was Clean Monday as there were kites in the sky...

...or if it was Easter as people were barbecueing everywhere...

...or if it was summer as people were at the beach bars and some brave ones were even swimming!

We walked around...
spotting beautiful flowers...

I even found a gorgeous stone filled with quartz....

Of course the men barbecued under our scrutiny (and Barca's scrutiny of course!)

Those sausages especially the yellow ones with chicken and cheese were terrific!

The views of fields covered in poppies were wonderful!

And some had to be gathered!

Afterwards we went to our beach house to enjoy the sunset...

and the moon.

The next day we did some house chores like putting an old coffee table from the city house in its place

but we also walked the beach enjoying the view of the snowcovered Olympus opposite us......

We of course collected some sea glass....

We also found lots of beautifully painted stones that probably tourists left behind.

But there was a guard guarding them so we didn't take any!

Beautiful flowers were everywhere at the beach!

and around in the fields.

Barca made a new friend...a huge gentle giant stray dog we were almost ready to take with us....

But we had to return to the city and this is what we returned to, another gorgeous sunset in Thessaloniki.

Sunday was beautiful too.
The sky was painted in white brush strokes...

We were hungry and we sat at To Elliniko! It was great as usual!We had some steamed mussels and some caramelised mushrooms along with tsipouro of course.

One of my mussels was pregnant!

It was a great weekend...when weekends are like that I feel like a tiny flower in this world, a happy little flower...

Good night!

May 1st

Have a great month everyone!

May before and after. A black and white photo found on facebook by my friend SeliniXrysoula and a sweet lady photographed by hubby at our seafront collecting flowers.

 Thousands of people on the seafront!

 I just picked a couple of flowers for my lovely Atelierstella vase.

And if you like a new wallpaper calendar Geninne has a lovely new one for May on her blog. Go here.

June already!

It seems that time flies and I am unable to reach/write my blog as often as I would like!
What am I doing these days?
Well school is coming to its end so we have lots to do there. And some spring cleaning is taking place in our flat.
Of course my son is sitting for his entrance University exams therefore we have to deal with that "nuisance"!
And lots of rehearsals and performances are taking place! In contrast to other years this Spring we have more performances so not much free time.
I admit I spend a lot of time on ....the Internet, reading blogs, looking at Instagram and etsy photos, and on facebook of course!Too bad! But we won't have this chance at the beach house so I will do more intellectual  creative things there hopefully!
Tomorrow it is June and time to show you the page from that vintage book I had found.
I remembered that I hadn't shown you the May page either so here they are.
May

 Summer

June

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