Break on Through (To the Other Side)

Seen at the Kiev Sea/Reservoir north of Kiev, early October 2011.

No Weekend Archive Series!

Sorry everyone, there sadly will be no weekend archive series this weekend.  The computer decided to act up and I’m just about finished (I hope) getting everything up and running again.  See you all again tomorrow!

St. Panteleimon from Park Feofania

A new view of St. Panteleimon, as seen from Park Feofania.

Round Barn, Shelburne Vermont

Shelbourne Museum Round Barn

Fred “Silo” Quimbly constructed the Round Barn, a three-story building measuring eighty feet in diameter, in 1901 in East Passumpsic,Vermont. Round barns enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Shakers designed and built the first round barn in America in 1826 in [...]

Hero Cities of the USSR (partial)

Hero Cities shown, from left to right:

Moscow, Leningrad, Volgograd, Kiev, Minsk, Odessa, Sevastopol

Other Hero Cities not shown:

Novorossiysk, Kerch, Tula, Murmansk, Smolensk, Brest (Hero Fortress)

Hero City (Belarusian: горад-герой, horad-heroy, Ukrainian: місто-герой, misto-heroy, Russian: город-герой, gorod-geroy) is a Soviet honorary title awarded for outstanding heroism during the German-Soviet War (World War II) [...]

On Autumn's Path

Seen in Park Slavy, Kiev.

Lake at Park Feofania

Many years, the trees go from green to brown to on the ground in a matter of days. This year we actually have a autumn with some real colors! Photographer’s delight!

The National Philharmonic

The National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Національна Філармонія України), often referred to as Kiev Philharmonic and National Philharmonic, is a concert hall in Kiev, Ukraine.

The historic building founded in the end of the 19th century, standing at the end of Khreschatyk street in the European Square, has been a pride of the [...]