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Having completed our camera work, we started our climb.

I suppose the same emotion holds, if to a lesser degree, with any famous monument.

Will it live up to its reputation??

The weight of fame and history is formidable, and dreary steel engravings in schoolbooks do little to quicken interest and imagination.

Uh huh, we think, looking at them, so that's the Parthenon.

And then perhaps one day we get to Athens.

We are here!!

We've come a long way and spent a lot of money.

It had better be good.

Don't worry about the Acropolis.

It is awe-inspiring.

Probably every visitor has a favorite time for his first sight of it.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

The light at that time is a benediction.

The serene, majestic columns of the Parthenon, tawny in color against the pure deep blue sky, frame incredible vistas.

All we wanted to do was to stand very quietly and look and look and look.