Happy Easter!

Flowers from my Uncle! Happy Easter!

Spring And Sun

More spring photos with sun!

Green!

Green plants!

I Finally Found Where Spring Has Been Hiding Out!

Don't get me wrong, I love the seasons, especially winter. The ice and -10 C freezing cold temperature is very fun.....but......at a certain point, you just want it to be spring and to be warm again. For whatever reasons, this past winter seemed to go. on. forever.

It is winter no longer. I am safely back home in California after one of my most eventful trips home complete with a sprained back (that happened at Borispol) and an adventure with immigration officials which fortunately had a happy ending! Thanks to all those who were praying for me!

Despite the stressful trip, I had to hit the ground running when I found out that my grandma had a stroke the day I arrived. I barely comprehended that, watched a couple of Dodger games, ate a few avocados and then I was off to a conference last weekend. Today I finally was able to unpack my bags and start to get organized.

I found out that spring has been hiding out in our backyard so I will be sharing some photos over the next few days!

Spring Break

I will be taking a little "spring" break from my blogging for the next few weeks.

See you at the end of March or beginning of April!

Waiting For Spring

It's not spring here yet. I have been perusing my favorite blogs around the blogosphere and many are sharing photos of the beginning of spring. Flowers, trees blooming, no snow, lots of sunlight. Here in Ukraine it is STILL snowing and COLD. I took this photo two days ago to highlight what it looks like here now. It was a lot prettier looking in color, but I did not realize that I had my camera set on black and white and I don't do total post editing processing and add fake color, etc. (read photography snob) You can't see the outdoor ice rink in front of the church builidng, but it's still there today and people are still skating outside on it!

The Frozen Dnieper

With so much going on during our super cold winter months, I forgot that the Dnieper river had frozen over so I went for a walk last weekend to take a look. I am still always so shocked encountering so much snow, cold and ice. It still feels like I'm in another world after so many years.

This past week I had to put my kitty to sleep so I'm more tired than usual and don't have the mental energy to write a proper blog post. I've been posting some photos on my other blog HERE. So glad spring is coming!