Asphodel in Tiryns
One more morning Greece-themed sketch: asphodel flower. (Asphodelus ramosus)
I photographed this one on the ruins of Tiryns, not far from Nauplion, in Greece. These are some places I love to visit. Nauplion is worth visiting for its own sake. Many who go there of course visit Mycenae and Epidaurus, and the Palamidi fortress and other major archeological sites, but Tiryns and Lerna are nice because so few tourists visit them. They’re quiet, surrounded by orange groves, with the smell of the sea in the air.
The asphodel is associated with gravesites, and with the underworld, and with memory of the dead. Some have said it can heal snakebites (I don’t recommend testing this theory without a backup plan.)
I associate it with Greece, a country full of gentle blossoms.
