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A Touch of Spring by Bethany A. De Chavez The smell of freshly cut grass, The flowers in bloom, The dandelions, The dandelions floating in the air, The bright blue sky, The cotton-like clouds, The tall trees, The sound of the crows, The calm pond, The swimming ducks and flying pigeons, The happy faces of little kids playing in the sun, The intricate creation of the world, Oh, how amazing is our Creator! I wrote this poem as inspired by spring time when we first came here last May. And now I want to show you some memories I've captured during the fleeting days of summer. This was the first and last daisy I saw on the ground before the temperature changed from a scorching 30º to a cool 18º.  I don't know what these flowers are called, but I think that they looked like villi which are found in the lining of the human intestine. 😁 The flowers are starting to wilt... ...but they are more beautiful than ever. I can imagine the smell of ...

My mobile phone photo album is bursting at the seams with fun and interesting pictures that we took from our first ever visit to the  Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics located in Prospect Mira. But today, I will hold my horses and instead share a very short video presentation that my kids created when they unboxed a space food which they bought from the museum's vending machine. This doesn't happen everyday, right? Having to experience eating what cosmonauts ate in the outer space? So, this post is dedicated to the unboxing of just one kind of space food as there are varieties of them packaged in so many clever ways, plus a few photos of our little trip to the museum as a prelude to my next blog post happening very soon this week.  And it comes with a promise that I will be sharing our photo journal about this exciting trip featuring lots and lots of interesting space relics that can only be seen here; the bolshoi Russian architectural design of the museum itself that to me, l...

Going to Red Square is always welcomed with great anticipation. There's always something new to discover here in terms of the buildings' impressive architectural designs sprawling the City Center. Forget about the shopping part because then you will be blown away by the building façades that only speak of grandeur and pomp. " Every object we behold in Moscow is, like the city itself, in a certain degree, gigantic , " as observed by the scientist and traveller, Peter Simon Palace. So, from the ginormous parks they have here, to the magnificent buildings that were erected in place, everything is  bolshoi .  GUM's façade which stretches more than 240 meters in length. GUM, pronounced 'goom', is acronym  for Glavny Universalny Magazin which  literally means 'main universal store'. GUM is Russia's iconic three - storey State Department Store which was completed in the year 1823. It is located on the eastern side of Red Square opposite Lenin...