#mastictree

[sincosh]

Minnak bir sakiz agacj ile tanistik bugün 😊 #mastictree #masticmuseum #greece #chios #sincosh #happyday (Chíos, Greece)

[desperateprimitive]

There was a large fire burning on the hearth, and one could smell from far the fragrant reek of burning cedar and sandalwood. As for herself [Calypso], she was busy at her loom, shooting her golden shuttle through the warp and singing beautifully. Round her cave there was a thick wood of alder, poplar, and sweet smelling cypress trees.

                                                                              Homeros, Odysseia 5.58

[giorgos977]

#mastictree (Taken with Instagram)

[desperateprimitive]

Tale of Mastic Trees As leaving from Cesme shore and sailing on the Aegean Sea, I looked on for some traditional and local things in Chios Island and just found out that however the mastic trees (which is the local product of Chios) can grow anywhere where the climate provides average humid and warmth but they don’t give mastic gums in any other place but Chios. Mastic is called the tears of tree; so, I had my first question for the first night to ask a local random friend. I found the answer in the most delicious restaurant ‘Agyra’ in the neighbourhood I stayed where I was welcomed so warm and heartedly. “So; why do the trees cry?”

[desperateprimitive]

Morning discovery by the Aegean Sea and Smyrna over the water. Azure corners create beautiful corridors for the warming sunlight and refreshing sea breeze to awaken the mastic trees.

Megas Limnionas, Chios

[desperateprimitive]

Mastic harvesting season in Chios Island, time to dry and clean the ‘tears of trees’. Olympi, Chios