At the dawn the Sun is beautiful, at the dusk it is beautiful too. At the happiness and unhappiness the Greats never change. They always remain the same, the Greats. Now the regions have the names: Ktumaxa (pronounced as” too-nah-ha”), Akisqnuk and others. Before it was one huge Universe and there lived one Universal Giant…
Our photo report about buying pearls at Hawaii: Travelling around Hawaiian Islands we saw the Maui Divers Jewelry, Island Pearls, Pick-a-Pearl stores everywhere. Maui Divers Jewelry opened 52 years ago in Lahaina, Maui, offering underwater excursions to island visitors. Fateful diving expedition in the deep waters off the Molokai Channel led to the discovery of…
Grizzly bear by name Masha hibernated for the whole winter. I am wondering how the bears can sleep for 3-4 months without eating, having their daily necessities. All their biological life circle as if it is frozen, shut down for a while. Then it would turn on again. How much bears could economize on electricity, food…
As an introduction watch video:“Johann Strauss Wiener Walz An der Shonen Blauen Donau (Viennese Waltz)” Malacky, a small Slovakian town, near Bratislava. Synagogue, not functioning, as the whole congregation was perished during the Holocaust. Nowadays a local arts children’s school is located here. To the right and to the left one can see the photos…
“What an interesting recipe of “Charlotte” a la Russ for Tsar Alexander III, isn’t it? And it is without a single apple, isn’t it?”, I address my questions to the creator of this tart, a professional cook from New Zealand, Carey Taylor-Forbes. …
All preparations for New Year are over: it is already on the threshold.Welcome, welcome, our little darling dove! Someone has shopped, someone has done crafts, and everybody is ready to celebrate the most cheerful holiday of the year: meeting New 2011 Year. The table is lain, Champaign is poured into the Champaign glasses and it is…
Aljoz picked up the wonderful mushrooms growing near the house. Look at them, are they not beautiful? Peter brought them home. Gennadiy and Janko helped me to make a nice mushroom cream soup. See the recipe #144 on page 61 of the book “A Firebird Cornucopia of Russian Delights (Russian Cookbook)” by Valentina Filina-Pattison. All…
My workshop lately is full of young blood reps: competition in better painting of figurines and tanks, making different costumes for dolls. The night we had visited the ballet performance “The Snow White’, which was mentioned in our “Social Club” category before. The idea to design new costumes came up all of a sudden during…
“Hit me as if a sky blue shawl, my messy youth, We’ve shawled enough with, to say the truth, Time to part! Oh, my shocking, dancing, Sweet, golden, amber youth, Your Eminence!” Marina Tsvetaeva, 1921 (Translation by Valentina Pattison) Extremely unusual images of a Great Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva were putting me in a poetic,…
From time immemorial I knew that a doll plays an important role in a girl’s development as well as a machine toy for a boy’s . Playing with the doll the girl tried to make clothes for her, dress-undress, put her to bed, even dance with her, it’s her first close friend besides Mom. The…