Update

I haven't posted quite a while but I've been thinking for some time I should make a quick update.

I'm well, having enough work at the Uni and not enough if any translation work, I'm reading the FT and The Economist and other papers to keep up with the news, I'm visiting granny once a week to help her and cheer her up, for she hasn't been well recently, I'm reading quite a lot in German, both fiction and Sisi-and Vienna-related Sachbücher, and, inspired with the Emily books (by the dear Lucy Maud Montgomery) and my Viennese diary I am trying to do something with my writing: 1) I've been working on a piece of Prague and Vienna-based fluff I'm writing together with my friend Lena (we based the characters on ourselves, made them cousins and sent them to Prague and Vienna for romantic adventures), 2) I'm yet hoping I won't give up my Glass Castle story, I've typed a little more of it for the NaNoWriMo project...3) I've taken out my old notebooks and plan to edit and type the stories I'd written some years back. Then I'll be thinking what to do with them further.

I've been walking with the camera around quite a lot this autumn, you can see tons of photos I uploaded recently here, at the favourire discussion board, just click on the link.

I'm posting an autumn picture with this entry (Yuri Vasnetsov is one of my favourite artists, he illustrated a lot of children's books of fairytales and rhymes), but actually the beauty of golden autumn faded some time ago. It's November now and for a week or so it looks winter. I am often asking myself: where has the summer gone?

Staying on topic ;-)

I finished typing it! Only several hours of editing and I am done!

(I can't remember where I saved this photo from, but it fits the topic and the October mood)

P.S. Today is my name day, and yesterday was day of translator/interpreter but I'll post about it later.

Some Wednesday Photos

It wasn't a beautiful day and the park seemed so small and uncosy after the lest time I had been there (and it's been a couple of years)

Brought a little autumn home

...and decided to hang it up on the lamp:

To brace myself up

Warum es ist nur so kalt here? - Why is it so cold? :-(

А sweet little picture

Just an eye-candy, for it is so cold and rainy and grey here. Autumn came too early this year :-(

By the way, the artist is Karl Larsson, his art reminds me somewhat of Astrid Lindgren's books. I should make a special post on him some time later.

September

Here is a collection of pictures I took this September. To start with pictures I took early this month: the famous Alexander Nevsky Cathedral where the Volga and the Oka meet, the surroundings of our old port at sunset and the local church in the mild evening light:

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A bit of country charm from last weekend:

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The favourite view and bracken bushes (wild roses turned to berries!) with the Volga on the background, from the side of Nizhny:

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Finally I come to yesterday's picture-taking binge: