A Room With a View

                                             The view the last 5 months? Snow..............lots of it!

Up!

A Russian rocket that once did go up!

Samara is actually one of the centers

in Russia for building space crafts.

Up

Scary is watching your baby go 6 feet up in the air balancing on one leg..........

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

I don't bake, I cook, but not bake so when my little one asked me to bake cupcakes for Valentines' Day, I thought, why not?  Well, I think I was most pleased with my frosting than the actual cupcakes....maybe next year they will come out a bit better??

Pink

Everytime I think of the color pink, I think back to when I was a little girl and my favorite pink coat!  I still have that picture and although this isn't a "valley picture", it reminds me of when I was a little girl.

Pink

                                 
                                    The only pink we get around here is when I get to watch
      
                                    my friend's girls........nothing like cute little pink toenails!

Departing

Trains departing..............

Departed

The cemeteries here aren't taken care of very well. It was actually quite eery walking around the cemetery when I took these pictures. Everything seemed so run down.......quite depressing. Not to mention how many died at such young ages.

A stroll

The plan for this weekend was to go out for a hike so I could take some pictures....however!  The rain came and when it rains here we stay indoors!  So instead, I will share one of my most favorite pictures ever, this is my oldest and her best friend strolling along the California Poppies in the spring, this was taken last year but I love this picture so much that I wanted to post it!

Strolling

Taking the dog and child out on a stroll.

 

Winter in the Valley

This year we have had a very mild winter, in fact, we've had three straight weeks of warm weather, today the first storm of the year is rolling in.  It doesn't look very threatening thou!

Winter

 

This Winter has been pretty harsh. The snow came at the beginning

of November and will stick around probably until the end of March!

This Winter makes me wish I lived in the valley!

Resolution 2012

I need to, no I mean I have to loose weight.  At 43 I am 30 pounds over weight and I have to loose weight!!!!!! So far, week 1, I have lost 4 pounds.

New Year Resolutions

3650 Challenge- Reading 10 Chapters a Day

Farm Animals

 

We live near the city center and let's just say there are NO farm animals but in August we have had to travel outside the city several times.  On the side of the very busy highway we saw cows!  They just hang around and feed.  Sometimes they are even sitting very close to the highway!

My Addiction

    Oh how I love you Pepsi!   The can says it all "JOY"!!!!!

My Addiction

 

My name is Nat and I'm a notebookaholic!  I love, love buying notebooks or "tetradi" (Russian for notebook) and I use every single one of these in the picture.  

Stranger in Cali

    Mr. Lifeguard was very attractive, this is as gutsy as I get taking a picture of a stranger!

Strangers

 

I love taking pictures of strangers but I wish I had more guts to actually approach people and ask for a straight on shot.  I think it's the language barrier that keeps me from being so brave.  I love this

picture because it is not common to see older couples together.  Usually it's just the woman alone because the life expectancy for men here is so low - it's currently at 57 years of age.