Sorry no stamp or flower today but I couldn't resist posting this photo of two buffalo taken in 1966 at Kastanies in northeastern Greece
Bubalos bubalis - Greek Buffalo, Domesticated Water Buffalo
In 1966 there used to be over 40,000 buffalo in Greece.
Then a large number of Greeks emigrated to Germany, Australia etc leaving the land unused for agriculture.
In 1981 the Buffalo population had dropped to 930 beasts.
Since then there has been an effort to increase the number of buffalo and by 2011 there were over 3000.
Not expecting to find any reference to buffalo in THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN I was surprised to read that
the Nobel Prize winning poet Frederic Mistral met Buffalo Bill in Provence
TMG issue number 44, April 2006.