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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

November 14, 2011

{Birch} Just Because



Берёзы
Мои перевёрнутые слёзы
В небо стекают стройными струйками
По белым стволам, мерцая простыми рисунками
Birches
Like inverted tears of mine
Draining down into the sky in slender streams
From white trunks, shimmering in simple patterns
11.11.11

November 02, 2011

October 05, 2011

{FALLiage} Almost/WordlesWednesday


I
Октябрь уж наступил — уж роща отряхает
Последние листы с нагих своих ветвей;
Дохнул осенний хлад — дорога промерзает.
Журча еще бежит за мельницу ручей,
Но пруд уже застыл; сосед мой поспешает
В отъезжие поля с охотою своей,
И страждут озими от бешеной забавы,
И будит лай собак уснувшие дубравы.
VII
Унылая пора! очей очарованье!
Приятна мне твоя прощальная краса —
Люблю я пышное природы увяданье,
В багрец и в золото одетые леса,
В их сенях ветра шум и свежее дыханье,
И мглой волнистою покрыты небеса,
И редкий солнца луч, и первые морозы,
И отдаленные седой зимы угрозы.
VIII
И с каждой осенью я расцветаю вновь;
Здоровью моему полезен русской холод;
К привычкам бытия вновь чувствую любовь:
Чредой слетает сон, чредой находит голод;
Легко и радостно играет в сердце кровь,
Желания кипят — я снова счастлив, молод,
Я снова жизни полн — таков мой организм
(Извольте мне простить ненужный прозаизм).
{А. С. Пушкин}
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I
October has arrived - the woods have tossed
Their final leaves from naked branches;
A breath of autumn chill - the road begins to freeze,
The stream still murmurs as it passes by the mill,
The pond, however's frozen; and my neighbor hastens
to his far-flung fields with all the members of his hunt.
The winter wheat will suffer from this wild fun,
And baying hounds awake the slumbering groves.
VII
A melancholy time! So charming to the eye!
Your beauty in its parting pleases me -
I love the lavish withering of nature,
The gold and scarlet raiment of the woods,
The crisp wind rustling o'er their threshold,
The sky engulfed by tides of rippled gloom,
The sun's scarce rays, approaching frosts,
And gray-haired winter threatening from afar.
VIII
When autumn comes, I bloom anew;
The Russian frost does wonders for my health;
Anew I fall in love with life's routine:
Betimes I'm soothed by dreams, betimes by hunger caught;
The blood flows free and easy in my heart,
Abrim with passion; once again, I'm happy, young,
I'm full of life - such is my organism
(Excuse me for this awful prosaism)
...
{Pushkin A. S.}

May 25, 2011

{What I'm looking forward this summer!} Almost/Wordless Wednesday

Including, but not limited to:
Herb infusions/Sun teas

Pool splash

Outdoor cooking (which means clean kitchen indoors)

Summer reading

Berry picking


Flowers

Fresh vegetables from the garden

Mama's blintzes (crepes)

Ice cream and festivals


Making jam

Butterflies

Fresh grilling

Awesome forest sunsets

Mountain Laurel Blossoms

Travel USA

Chalk Art

4th of July

Blue skies

Green grass
Dreaming

May 18, 2011

{A Glimpse of My Motherland…} Wordless/Nostalgic/Wednesday

[Долина Нарзанов//Narsan (mineral water) Valley]

[Ледник "Семёрка"//Ice Range "Seven" on a background]

March 01, 2011

Spring is on its way (let's hope)

It was a beautiful day today. Early spring was in the air, I spent most of it outside soaking up sun rays, one by one... This picture was taken last year, but today's blue sky and cheerful chirping of the birds reminded me of it. Soon, the guests will arrive in our town!

Spring,
I've been waiting
For your tender kiss
Between my brows
That sets them free as two wings,
Sending a rush
Of blush
Down my skin.
Spring!
Help me wash away
Winter's fling
That paralyzed my will
With windy shrill.
Help me ban this renegade
And let me serenade
With birds
That fly back
On your wings.
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Tomorrow, the big meld down begins!