First my verse and a photo show about horses: “A Horse was born as an animal of Beauty, Of brown brand with light colored mane, With long, flowing tail. A trainer’s duty, Is to cheer her up, challenging again and again”… p.77 from “Sinning Genie” ( a Book of Poetry ) by Valentina Filina-Pattison. To…
Gleb grabbed his camera in excitement and jumped out of the house. Reluctantly we followed him. In front of our eyes there was an unusual scene: that is which is called “Dry-Wet Pond”. To the left and to the right Gleb’s pictures of it. One of them is depicting the dry pond in sunny weather,…
“Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat, Where have you been? I’ve been up to London, To look at the Queen”. Many people know this childhood rhyme about a cat. My pet cat by name Mussik is far away from me, on the other continent but on the same 60th Parallell with Saint Petersburg, Russia. Some consider Russia and Canada…
The Bar U Ranch is the only National Historic Site in Canada that commemorates the history of ranching. By 1890, eight years after first herds of cattle were driven from Idaho, USA, the North West Cattle Company reported 10,410 cattle and 832 horses. The NWCC livestock, branded with the Bar U brand, grazed on the…
It’s true. Children conquered the World! What a wonderful country is a Children-land! Where everybody believes in a wonder, beautiful friendships, truth and justice. To-day 5 hours in a row without intervals or breaks the six: Gleb, Liza, Jonathan, Christian, Frank and Curtis played the table game “RISK”, one can see them on the pictures….
Back in 1885 the park’s ‘ town’ was a stopping place along the brand new Canadian Pacific Railway called siding 29. As visitors began discovering the newly established park, services moved closer to the main attraction at the time – the mineral springs. The name “BANFF” comes from Banffshire, Scotland, the birthplace of one of…
Here is a video about Hiroyuki Suzuki, the winner of ” Yo-yo God Tournament of 2005″: Hiroyuki Suzuki 1. Gleb, when did you start yo-yoing? 2. Since March of this year. 1. What is it? How did it happen? Where did you see yo-yo for the first time? 2. At school. The neighboring class mates,…
Summer in Calgary is very unusual : twenty times a day the weather is changing: a rainy morning, in an hour everything dried out, the sun showed up, the air is dry and clean, we are situated at 1500 meters above the sea level, the mountain ridge is on the horizon. It seems that they…
Everybody knows that night dreams are a reflection of the days’ activities. It’s definitely, yes. And definitely, no. Liza’s night dream was lately a replay of the day. About her house on the fourteenth floor hanging somewhere in the air. She saw herself and her Mom, sitting at her kitchen table and talking. All of…
“Between us it happened all: And happiness, and sadness, And long talks at evening fall…” Happy Birthday, my only beloved Mom, To-day’s talk I am engaged in from far away from you, from Canada, Happy Birthday to you, Mommy! First of all, I wish you happiness, love and all the best! Secondly, I would like…