Creative during power cut

Last night's rains brought Winter over to Crete ~  Northens winds blowing high waves onto the island and buckets of rain onto the land... rural roads were often like riverbeds in the lower regions; but the highway was OK for driving. 

We got to the village again where the olives we'd picked would be used for olive oil production... a job that would last an hour or a little more. In the extra you see some of our olives on the belt just after the seperation from the odd leafs and after the washing and before being transported thro'  the tube in the right hand corner of my picture onto the tanks and machines that will centrifuge out the olive oil.
Little after I took this image a thunderstroke struck a powercentre and we had a powercut in the wide region for hours. Such a shame our olives are halfway in the production process and will remain there till production is restarted... this eve? tomorrow? The quality of the olive oil may be lessened because of this delay... such a pity! We'll learn the news tomorrow.

My main photo is from a sweet lady and I have her as a Queen of Cooks!
Looking at her photo again, I see her now like accepting an invitation to dance!

With the help of a generator she had some light in her kitchen and she's making here the outer layer for the pastries Kalitsounakia (filling of spinach and cheese and herbs). We got to her restaurant "To Farangi" a few villages further from the oliveoil plant in Nohia, after the powercut emerged and ofcourse she / Sofia too worked without electricity for the cooking and we ate in candlelight and lovely company from locals who got to the taverna too.