This page is just assorted landscapes from across Ukraine. I will say as much as I can about them but they are here just to enjoy. Later I will be adding flowers but right now they are not on this machine with me at the hospital.	These shots are from the town we trained in. This is a small (17,000) farming community. Every square inch of land on every house is cultivated. Grass is a weed (I’m in heaven) and the only use for the soil is to grow plants. Above left you see someone pedaling to work in the snow. And above right the farm wagon is still in daily use throughout the town. It was not uncommon to see these wagons pulling through down town on a regular day.
	I climbed the hill across the lake from our classroom and host family and took these shots of the lake. This was shot early in April and I want you to notice that there is still ice on the lake. Behind our house where the lake was narrower they were still fishing on the ice.
	This is the lake from our side, near the bus station we went by every day.
	This was shot on one of our walks around the lake. The house in the center, next to the white building is the house we lived in. As you can see it is right on the lake, which is still frozen. Each clump of grass you see marks a fisherman’s fishing hole. By marking it this way they can find it the next day when they come back.
Every town in Ukraine has a tank. This is the tank that liberated the town from the Germany. The shot is not very good of the tank but just remember that EVERY town has the tank that liberated the town. This is a landmark you can not miss in every town.
These photos are all from my trip to Kerch, mostly just landscape shots for Virginia to look at because she could not be there. The gate above is the bottom of the steps leading up to the monument for the war dead. It is also the location of a very large archeological dig from the 600 BC. The water is the Black S=ea and in town we have a large ship building port so there is no beach in town. It is 10 KM north or south of town.
This is a very old church in Kerch. I do not remember the date but 1500 years runs in my mind. I will be more exact when I get back there. The two photos are placed correctly so if you look at the left edge of the right photo you can see how it goes together. My Guide said that the right photo was the original building and the left was hundreds of years newer. I thought by looking at it that the information was backward but who am I to argue
The trip across Crimea took me past some very flat ground but I could see mountains in the back ground and the coast just past where these photos were taken is mountainous and rocky. This beach is considered one of the best in Crimea. IT runs about 20 km and is all perfect sand beach Below you can see a sunset taken from the window of the train. We are on the narrow split of land separating Crimea from the rest of Ukraine and I could see water out of both windows. Parts of the crossing were so narrow that I could just about reach t5he water from each window
This shot was included because my friend Jim was complaining about mowing the lawn. What you see here is the maintaince man at the local high school mowing the grass. He is using a scythe to cut the grass. Every few swaths he stops to strop the blade so he can go on. The lighter area took him about 30 minutes to cut.
The next section was included because it was what the money paid to our host family went for so we have a zabor built in our honor. Nikoli was so proud of this fence because it was as good or better then the house up the street owned by the president of the local bottling factory. The bricks were delivered by truck and just dumped. We spent a couple of hours stacking the bricks for future use. The Rock, sand and gravel was dumped on the street in front of the house. The amount of rock would build a fence three times as large without the brick support. On Easter, Nikoli, his son-in-law, and I moved the remaining rock to the back yard and it created quite a pile.