Animals of the Mediterranean

It has been almost a month since we arrived home from the trip, and I am having fun looking through the pictures, sorting through the souvenirs and gifts, and making a calendar!

YES! I did something sort of crafty that involved absolutely no cutting and pasting with real paper. I made a calendar of some of the animals we saw on the trip. While in Mykonos, Carol decided I needed to publish my own (or our own) calendar of the "Cats of..." variety that you see all over Italy and Greece. We did not really see many cats in Italy, but in Istanbul and Mykonos it seems we saw cats everywhere.

Also, in Pompeii and in Athens, there were dogs that accompanied tourists around the various ruins. In fact, in Pompeii there was a dog with a limp that came up to our group when we first arrived. He was whining and crying loudly like he had just been injured and everyone was shocked when the guide spoke sharply to him (a brown lab-type dog) and pushed him out of the way. It turns out that that dog was a great actor and had figured out how to get -- attention? handouts? None of us really had any foot, although Judy did feed him some nuts. He followed us around for most of the time we were there, lying down to sleep while we enjoyed the sights. Eventually, when other people arrived, he wandered off -- before I had a chance to take his picture. There was another dog, however, that joined us and napped with us for a bit. And then there was this dog on the Acropolis in Athens.

Anyway, I got the calendars printed at Shutterfly.com, and for those of you not on my snail mail list, I will try to post them in a sharing mode some place where you can see the rest of the pictures. Soon. I promise. No cutting or pasting required.