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… Sounds like the ‘heredity really matters’.

She came to visit us from the ‘Cossacks’ Country’ - a region of Russia traditionally called ‘Kuban’ (nothing has to do with ‘Cuba’, though, and I was reflecting on it here), with a main city of Krasnodar. In old times it was called ‘Ekaterinodar’, which meant a ‘big gift’ to the cossacks from Katherine the Great, a legendary Russian Empress .

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I’m reckoning now that particularly for me ‘Writing in English’ is a most challenging part of this whole blogging endeavor. Lion’s share of the time is consumed by a mere ’sitting and writing’ (i.e., excruciatingly slow processing of ideas and putting them into reasonable English sentences.. thanks Heaven, this process doesn’t require a lot of ‘Russian-English translation’ any more. However, I wish some of you would understand Russian well:).

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Well, we’ve just driven them back to where each of them has his or her ‘current ‘dwelling’ now, and here we are again, the two ‘empty-nesters’, and I’m going to explain what did the two previous posts mean.

So, today’s the Mother’s Day, and it looked as a pretty good reason for them to come and visit us, - ‘their folks’. So, they did.

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We get together tonight, our children ‘are visiting us’, - fairly rare occasion, by the way, - and Victoria has just invited everybody to ‘have a cup of tea’.

So. I’ll be with you in a second. Cup of tea

I got up early this morning and elected to take an ‘inspirational walk across’ our neighborhood. For this purpose we’ve got here a terrific net of walk paths. And the weather looked really promising, so there was no reason ‘why not’. And, why not to take a camera, eh:)?

First I stepped into the woods of the Griffith Park

The trail that I chose this morning (from the number of them existing in the area) led me to one of the Elbow River ‘wetland sleeves’ where I stopped by to marvel at Mother Nature, and some of her children basking in the pleasant comfort of the clean environment.

Then I turned toward ‘out of the woods’, crossed the Discovery Ridge Boulevar, and climbed up onto the trail running along the top of a few hills edging the Elbow River valley in our area.

Seems like after the short spell of a dreadful weather that we recently had the spring is back on the full throttle

See, what the cute guys hide in the weeds covering the hill slopes(will check with the reference book for the name of this kind of spring flowers. Its amazing, in my native Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan we had the same kind of flowers blossoming in the spring!)

Hills are also populated by birds. Robins are numerous

I had also a chance to get a nice capture of the different kinds of ‘feathered creatures’

And this one is my favorite:

Check out the blow-up, a registration can be read easily:

C-GWBN, and I tell you, I flew this particular thing on..

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