Springtime in Moscow

Ok, finally it is warm at my street. If I may say “my” about streets of Moscow. This is the week in the end of April when one change winter coats for t-shirts for several days. Now a thermometer on Tverskaya can confirm. It is spring.



Maybe one of these girls in Ukrainian national dress is the Spring. I haven’t asked them.



It is warm, it is sunny, and it is dusty. For there were no any rain and there are no green leaves yet. All the dust accumulated on the snow during latest five months is on the streets after snow has melted down. Tverskoy boulevard is waiting for the first green.



So Suvorovskiy boulevard does. The building of Oriental Peoples Art Museum is seen from the opposite side..



Green leaves are late this year. Last year there was all green these days.



Poplars on Fruktovaya (Fruit street).



The bushes are more advanced to compare with trees. Lilac.



Elder-bush leaves are quite big already.



This is how I first met spring this year. Now I’m waiting it to come Petro. :)

The spring of robin

Yesterday at the late Nordic sunrise I heard a first robin in Petro in this spring. That means spring really come to me.




European robin (do not mix with American robin which is not actual relative to European species) is very special bird for me. And not only because I did my student research about this bird. I would rather say that I chose this species because I loved it before. I like nightingales also but they are quite rare in Karelia so it was difficult to make research about them. So I took robin.

Robin is very sociable bird. Often it accompanies picking mushrooms human in forest in the autumn time. It lives in the cage quite easily comes tame. I used to keep one when I was 16 and it was really nice pet.

Unfortunately I can not keep birds right now still I’m often out of Petro. But when I hear wild robins I normally stop to look for this small bird with my eyes.

...and very soon it will be over.

Well, really soon it will be over.

This is how my workplace looked on April 7. The paint on the walls and the linoleum are brand new.



This is how it looks right now.



The table is at its place so the main problem are the books. I must put the bookshelves on the wall (they use to stand right on my working table) and fill them with books. You can check up the mess for a while.