The rare, almost eerie, quiet night on Mount Athos fascinates you, approaching Leonov's description. "I was flying among the stars! Such silence can not be imagined on earth. A silence so deep and absolute that no one can hear the sounds of his body, his heartbeat and his pulse…
At Mount Athos, wooden percussions knock on the "door"… Read More »
Wild flax is one of the first plants that man domesticated and cultivated mainly for the fiber of his shoot with which he made his first clothes. It continues to grow in its wild form scattered, one here and one there, in small nests in its olive groves and forests
The olive groves of Mount Athos are a forest-ecosystem of high aesthetic value in which the olive groves are surrounded by forests. Many plants grow in these olive groves, but from all of them we chose to talk about a tiny, humble and insignificant one that almost catches your eye, the Arabidopsis. Arabidopsis ...
Arabidopsis-how the insignificant becomes important Read More »
The olive is a diva who wants to stay young, she moves non-stop towards the future full of youth, everything old leaves it behind, it dries it, even its trunk! But we humans, who pass by her like butterflies, want to date her… How strange…
Dakos is the most important enemy, an olive insect. We also call insects enemies because we humans consider them our enemies in the fight for food, we consider them to eat our food. The fathers set traps for mass fight against the dakos. This method is organic because the olive trees do not come…
Biological homicide of the Holy Monastery of Pantokratoros Mount Athos Read More »
Lily of the Virgin- Lilio The leirion or leiridion or leilidion, lily later, is the plant from which the word flower came, which then included all the flowers in general. It is an impressive wild flower that immediately causes admiration. The Lily! The photo is from the courtyard of the Holy Monastery of Pantokratoros in Agios…
