visiting cypress

Well, its been some time that I have contributed anything new.. These first months of the year are low key, no real collection going on, no distillation.... However, its time for visiting.. human and plant friends.. We set out to visit the cypress trees, in the Sfakian mountains above Anopoli one nice day...admiring the way these trees survive...

The cypress trees here on Crete in the mountains are of the original variety, called horizontalis.. full name is Cupressus sempervirens var. horizontalis.. Cypress is mostly known in its age-long cultivated form, called C. sempervirens var. pyramidalis... the pyramide shaped Cypress so well known from Italian paintings, so well known as a typical tree in graveyards...

I love this above picture a lot.. when we passed by, the sky and the light was dramatic, and somehow the sun seemed to embrace this cypress tree..

And this is how they live as apopulation.. growing just out of the rocks, side by side...

Here we can see their cones....

Their kids...