Love your photo of your feathered friends and the Stieglitz photo. I imagined it would have taken him a long time to capture that scene on film in 1893. It's a wonderful scene. I like your Varykino photo -- well titled. Nice story. I almost shivered as I read it and viewed the photos. Did you know that "Doctor Zhivago," originally banned in the Soviet Union and first published in Italy in 1957 is now part of the Russian schools curriculum? Well, Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature for it, which the Communists detested.
Thank you Sam. I don’t remember being cold during that entire snow event, could have been the adrenaline. Art and literature have always suffered the slings and arrows of the small minds and in particular the fearful, and then later they turn around and act like they invented it. Thank you for coming here to read my little story, it was really a very special time. My feathered friends returned today during our brief snowfall. You might remember those snow covered stairs I titled Varykino.
Yes, I do recall the "Varykino" scene. Glad we're not there anymore. Regarding the Soviet's reaction to "Dr. Zhivago," they regarded Boris Pasternak and the story as being anti-Communist. Dr. Zhivago, the character, was a Green, although one would interpret him as being more White than Red.
That brings to mind the conservative Turk I met at the Knockdown Center on Flushing Avenue in Queens while drinking scotch and smoking pot. When I brought up Orhan Pamuk she grimaced, although she quickly recovered and continued by saying, “Don’t get me wrong we do love our exports.”
That alley were the Varykino snowscape photo was taken was a treacherous path.
Love your photo of your feathered friends and the Stieglitz photo. I imagined it would have taken him a long time to capture that scene on film in 1893. It's a wonderful scene. I like your Varykino photo -- well titled. Nice story. I almost shivered as I read it and viewed the photos. Did you know that "Doctor Zhivago," originally banned in the Soviet Union and first published in Italy in 1957 is now part of the Russian schools curriculum? Well, Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature for it, which the Communists detested.
Thank you Sam. I don’t remember being cold during that entire snow event, could have been the adrenaline. Art and literature have always suffered the slings and arrows of the small minds and in particular the fearful, and then later they turn around and act like they invented it. Thank you for coming here to read my little story, it was really a very special time. My feathered friends returned today during our brief snowfall. You might remember those snow covered stairs I titled Varykino.
Yes, I do recall the "Varykino" scene. Glad we're not there anymore. Regarding the Soviet's reaction to "Dr. Zhivago," they regarded Boris Pasternak and the story as being anti-Communist. Dr. Zhivago, the character, was a Green, although one would interpret him as being more White than Red.
That brings to mind the conservative Turk I met at the Knockdown Center on Flushing Avenue in Queens while drinking scotch and smoking pot. When I brought up Orhan Pamuk she grimaced, although she quickly recovered and continued by saying, “Don’t get me wrong we do love our exports.”
That alley were the Varykino snowscape photo was taken was a treacherous path.