Portrait: Khristina G.

I see my friend Khristina in the settings of mid 19th century rather than the beginning of 21st. 

"Women are seldom silent.
Their beauty is forever speaking for them."
—PHILIP MOELLER

Home #5. Crassula Ovata.

    A very common houseplant Crassula ovata or Jade plant. It's also known as money tree. Our version of it is finished off with chinese lucky knot...which I tried to identify but there are soooo many different knots that it seemed like a mad idea to try to find out how this one on the picture is called and symbolises. Anyway one symbol combined with another symbol makes it even more symbolic, don't you think? Honestly, I think that the contrast of the jade green leaves and silk red knot is quite striking. That's all. I believe that material things posess only those meanings that we are willing to confer to them.

Thoughts: On The Inevitable. #2.

"Death is the dropping of the flower, 

that the fruit may swell."

—HENRY WARD BEECHER

Nadya & Cat.

Dishevelled Beauty

At the dacha - summer house...We had a nice get together and lunch with grill and all that... 

Antonovo, Velikiy Novgorod.

Antoniev Monastery (also known as St. Anthony's Monastery) that dates from the early 12th century...

Thoughts: On the Inevitable. #1.

Ah! The clock is always slow; 

It is later than you think.

—ROBERT W. SERVICE