Snow in the Aegean 8 (Jan 29, 2006)

The pines in Rahes are ‘Pinus brutia’, trees which enjoy high altitudes and do not mind snow. The locals who love these trees (they are emblematic for the landscape of Rahes) are sorry when they see their lower branches break from the snow and fall off. Yet the snow  ‘prunes’ the tree and lets it grow bigger and taller. Angelos adds that without snow these trees would load with branches and leaves and then when the terrible ‘sorocco’ blows in spring, the gale would throw all of them flat on the ground.

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Sunday January 29, 2006 – 12:36pm (PST)

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