Starship Asterisk*

I like the way the trees are silhouetted in the early morning light before sunrise!

Beautiful, Orin!

Ann

here's where I spent half of this summer:



I would post a picture of bear, too, but he smashed my camera with his balalajka.

balalajka

balalajka!

Would that be a Greek or Russian bear

Playing the balalajka?

Ann

sigh, so I was away for so long that noone remembers where am I from... and it was USSR.

p.s. more balalajka to hijack the thread: (хотя вы всё равно не поймёте слова)

Three strings and the truth, yay!, go for it . . . I need to get me some of that 'happy juice'

(..it sure seems to work for those guys!)

makc wrote:here's where I spent half of this summer:



I would post a picture of bear, too, but he smashed my camera with his balalajka.

Lovely pictures makc

Makc, it wouldn't have mattered if you went away for a while or not. I didn't know you were from the Big Bear to begin with. Nice symbols around your name. They kinda add *pa-zazz*.

makc, interesting instrument! I'd never heard of a Balalaika.

I started reading more about them. Get a load of this: I was stuck by the reaction of the audience in the video. I thought the performance was very impressive; however, other than a few individuals, most of the audience seemed rather...unmoved.

I, too, think that your pictures are very beautiful, makc.

When I was a kid, everybody liked the "Kalinka" song. It was the most Russian, or perhaps the most Soviet, song we knew.

I think this is a great video, although slightly marred by those somewhat over the top guys in outrageous hairdos and shoes.
Ann

Orca wrote:I was stuck by the reaction of the audience in the video. I thought the performance was very impressive; however, other than a few individuals, most of the audience seemed rather...unmoved.

These days I see alot of people around that I can describe by Joe mama quote: "if it aint a pack of cigarettes, I'm not interested".

We must have had 5 inches of snow! Here, I tried to capture my neighbors evergreen!

I took these at 4:47pm yesterday afternoon! Days are getting pretty short.

Looked out the front door this morning and the sunlit sky was really nice.

Got a wee bit of snow recently:
Snow around here is very unpredictable. It is usually wet slimy stuff that melts away soon after it falls. We've had several dusting/melting sessions over the last few days. So far it's been enough to look pretty but not enough to cause traffic problems.