May in Russia is about Labor Day and Victory Day, about eating outside and smelling the roses (well, ok, lilacs and tulips mostly). It’s about long days, first thunderstorms and getting the taste of Summer up ahead.
Dacha House in the Garden, by Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya.
Birch Grove, by Arkhip Kuindzhi.
Forest in the Spring, by Stanislav Zhukovsky.
Gathering Storm, by Ivan Shishkin.
A May Evening, by Igor Grabar.
Flowering Orchard, by Isaac Levitan.
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it sounds like its full-on spring over there. lovely!
The paintings are springy, but the weather in Moscow is downright summer-like!
Birch trees – always a winner 🙂
I’m guessing not for Linda? 😉
She’s a bloody heathen! Don’t tell her I said that…
Ha! You thought I wouldn’t find you!? I have drunk the sap from birch trees, young lady! Have you? Well, have you!?
Lovely paintings by the way – if you threw in some black sacks of rubbish, I’d swear they were of LV 😉
No, I haven’t but I’ve read in the trade news that it’s going to be the next big nutrition fad…
Really!?
Yes. All it needs to kick it off big time is celebrity endorsement. And now it has it!!!
Ha ha! Maybe Candy is into it – I don’t think I count 😉
I see the problem. Excess “o” in your last word.
Ha ha ha! 🙂
I did wonder whether you’d get that… you’re back on form, clearly 😉
Oh yes! I’m back with a vengeance 😉 Linda’s got her groove back, so to speak 🙂
Arf 😉
Was it ever gone? 😉
A little 😉 But no fear, it’s back!
Are you serious? I want to get in on that. Somehow I missed the fact that coconut water is a panacea and ambrosia all in one. You should write about that.
I’ve written so much about coconut water, it’s coming out of my … well, all orifices. Sigh.
Yes or no: is it all it’s cracked out to be?
Well, it’s a healthy drink, and if you live in the tropics and sweat a lot, then it’s great for replacing electrolytes.
Hm…how does that compare to beer? 😉
Exactly! You’ve found its Achilles heel…
Anyway, what took you so long?!
I got there eventually – I always do! Very busy these days – working on a surprise for Latvia before I leave 😉
Oh oh oh. Can you wait till I move to Portugal? That’s about as far away as I can get without falling off the edge of Europe before the Big Bang….
I don’t think I can wait that long – you could always head back to Gibraltar??!
Surprise for Latvia? You know that sounds slightly menacing coming from you, right?
This is why Russia is better 😛
They probably don’t put the bags of trash in Latvian paintings either 😉
Beautiful paintings! Over here it seems like we’ve jumped from winter to summer, the spring was this warm/short.
Ditto here. I am so jealous of all the practically-naked people sunbathing all around Moscow parks!
Gorgeous photos! I am already missing Spring.. its got hot here and I wanted to laze about in the cool breeze a little more. BTW, where do you find all these great paintings?
I know a lot of works or at least all the prominent artists by heart (I love art) and bc they’re old, they’re usually in public domain, so I just pull them from whenever.
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So I’ll ask this because I like storms – are there many during the spring? April showers?
April still gets a lot of snow, but in May – yes 🙂
I love thunder 🙂
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