Happy holidays!
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alexandralHappy holidays, dear friends!!! Whatever you celebrate, have a good time full of warm family gatherings, nice food, cookies, chocolates and love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because for me Winter holidays must have some snow, I digged out from the Internet few fabulous wintery images of the city I was born in, Omsk (Russia, Siberia).
Because for me Winter holidays must have some snow, I digged out from the Internet few fabulous wintery images of the city I was born in, Omsk (Russia, Siberia).
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Date: 2006-12-24 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-25 01:41 pm (UTC)The wooden church is so lovely, I never seen it in RL. This is one of the churches which appeared after I gone to live in UK.
I have heard that it seems to be unexpectedly warm this year in Scandinavian countries. There are sometimes years like this, there is mentioning in Pushkin's poems that one year the real snow fell in January in Russia. (very, very unusual. First snow usually falls at the end of October in Omsk, and the snow cover becomes permanent by the middle-end of November).
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Date: 2006-12-24 02:24 pm (UTC)wishing you a fine and safe holiday. it's been a pleasure meeting you hereabouts. nutmeg knows the nicest folks. :)
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Date: 2006-12-24 05:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-12-24 05:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-12-25 01:44 pm (UTC)And it is a great pleasure to meet you too! (I am so thankful to
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Date: 2006-12-24 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-25 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-24 03:50 pm (UTC)Lovely pictures - I always love how ornate Orthodox churches are.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
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Date: 2006-12-25 01:49 pm (UTC)This is so unusual this winter, my friend called me from Finland and she also mentioned that they don't have any snow. (She lives somewhere up north too). There was a year registered in the last century when snow fell in Russia in January, but this is so rare.
SI am so glad you like the pictures - I get very nostalgic sometimes!
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Date: 2006-12-24 04:41 pm (UTC)Merry Christmas to you and to your beautiful family, with all my heart!
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Date: 2006-12-25 01:53 pm (UTC)I don't really like snow so much, because it makes so difficult to drive and walk and I feel like I must stay at home even though I don't wanto to
I don't particular like BAD BAD cold we tend to get in Russia, but snow itself makes winter much brighter for me. They are quite prepared for snow there, having big snow plows cleaning the roads and so on. (You can probably notice how clean the roads are in comparison with the park)
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Date: 2006-12-24 05:07 pm (UTC)While a little bit of snow during winter is okay, I'm no big fan of the cold. I much more sympathise with the Australians on my flist who earlier today were mentioning 'Christmas barbecues'. :)
Happy Holidays to you and your family! :)
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Date: 2006-12-25 01:58 pm (UTC)It is a big industrial city, really, but looking at the pictures made me remember how spacey everything is.
While a little bit of snow during winter is okay, I'm no big fan of the cold. I much more sympathise with the Australians on my flist who earlier today were mentioning 'Christmas barbecues'
I am not keen on bad cold neither, I don't miss it at all. But snow makes winter much brighter, and of course they are much more prepared for it in Russia, cleaning roads with snow plows and such. I don't know what the weather is like where you live, but here it is dark and raining and dark again. :D
Have lovely holidays!!!!
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Date: 2006-12-24 05:25 pm (UTC)Hope you have a Merry Christmas! :)
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Date: 2006-12-25 02:00 pm (UTC)Have lovely, lovely holidays, dear!
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Date: 2006-12-24 05:43 pm (UTC)Happy, happy holidays to you and yours. ::huge hugs::
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Date: 2006-12-25 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-24 06:09 pm (UTC)Blessed Christmas to you!
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Date: 2006-12-25 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-24 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-25 03:26 pm (UTC)I am so glad you are having warm time with your family. Must be lovely - after cold Beijing, warm weather of Australia.
I'm afraid my gift to you was delayed in posting so it may arrive there shortly after Christmas
You absolutely didn't have to!!!
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Date: 2006-12-24 11:10 pm (UTC)Merry Christmas!
^_^
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Date: 2006-12-25 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-24 11:35 pm (UTC)Hope you have a lovely holiday! :)
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Date: 2006-12-25 03:31 pm (UTC)Thank you for your wishes! We are hardly getting up from comfy chairs today, roasting some beef and parsnips and potatoes in between of "Doctor Who" and "Top of the Pops". :D
HAve lovely, lovely time!
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Date: 2006-12-25 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-25 03:33 pm (UTC)HAve some lovely time, dear!
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Date: 2006-12-25 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-25 03:36 pm (UTC)This is an elite military academy. :D
I am looking forward to your thoughts about "Golden flower" and pictures.
** Hugs **
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Date: 2006-12-25 06:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-25 03:37 pm (UTC)I really wish i could lay in the snow for awhile
I wish too! It is so fresh and smells of water melons. !!
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Date: 2006-12-25 07:15 pm (UTC)I miss snow, too. It's very troublesome for transportation and etc, but it's soo beautiful to look at, especially on tree branches.
I hope you have wonderful holidays!
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Date: 2006-12-26 11:15 pm (UTC)but it's soo beautiful to look at, especially on tree branches.
Last year it snowed on the New Year day. I was so happy. :D
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Date: 2006-12-26 04:41 am (UTC)did I ever tell you when I was in high school I was somewhat obsessed with Russian history and also 19th century Russian Literature?
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Date: 2006-12-26 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-28 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-28 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-17 11:33 pm (UTC)Some time back I posted a lot of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin Gorskii's 1905-1915 colour pictures of Russia. In case you don't know there, they are here:
http://shezan.livejournal.com/30615.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/30746.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/31027.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/31271.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/32751.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/32751.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/33622.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/33917.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/34497.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/34845.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/35446.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/35847.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/36102.html
http://shezan.livejournal.com/36615.html
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Date: 2007-03-18 07:32 pm (UTC)And the pictures you linked to are absolutely incredible. May be I can make some icons one day? if you don't mind?
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