Buddy

Buddy

A baboon dressed in children’s clothes sits on a chair by Moscow’s Red Square. Enterprising Russians use them and various other exotic animals such as eagles to draw a crowd and charge a pretty Ruble for a photo opportunity. 

A baboon dressed in children’s clothes sits on a chair by Moscow’s Red Square. Enterprising Russians use them and various other exotic animals such as eagles to draw a crowd and charge a pretty Ruble for a photo opportunity. 

My Chinchilla Charlie Chip. I miss the little booger.

My Chinchilla Charlie Chip. I miss the little booger.

Russian circus princesses

Russian circus princesses

Icons in my 100 year old great grandmother’s bedroom.

Icons in my 100 year old great grandmother’s bedroom.

Probably more interesting - a public toilet at the same train station, Rayevka, in Bashkiria, a small republic in the Ural mountains of Russia.

Probably more interesting - a public toilet at the same train station, Rayevka, in Bashkiria, a small republic in the Ural mountains of Russia.

A plaque in a train station in Bashkiria (Russia), celebrating the fact that Lenin visited that station on July 3. 1900.

A plaque in a train station in Bashkiria (Russia), celebrating the fact that Lenin visited that station on July 3. 1900.

Clowns in Moscow’s “Bolshoy” Circus

Clowns in Moscow’s “Bolshoy” Circus

Photo of a giraffe I took at the Miami Zoo. … *snicker*

Photo of a giraffe I took at the Miami Zoo. … *snicker*

View out back at our house in the village in rural Bashkiria.

View out back at our house in the village in rural Bashkiria.

Wasn’t he cute :).

Wasn’t he cute :).

That doesn’t look comfortable.

That doesn’t look comfortable.