As regular readers know, I’ve lived for nearly five years now in a location quite devoid of mountains. So I’ll hope you understand in the delight I feel each time I walk out the door here in Trpejca and see this, our local 2200-meter mountain framing the horizon :-). In the gallery below, I’ve also included a shot of the village as seen from the water, with mountain backdrop. We’re staying to the right, out of the frame of that photo.
On Monday, Steve and I saw these lovely snapdragons growing in (the town of) Ohrid’s ancient amphitheater. When the Romans gained control of this region – so the sign tells us – they remodeled the amphitheater for gladiatorial and big-animal spectacles, instead of the classical dramas one assumes were mainstays during the Hellenistic period.
