July 19, 2013

The area where our office is located is in the Museum District on Terashevchenko. There are about twenty museums that we walk by on the way there and we love visiting them. They all have one area where they periodically display "traveling" exhibits so there is always something new to see. Unfortunately, no photos are allowed.

This week I have decided to do a little exhibit of my own pictures taken this week of some beautiful and some unique things in Kyiv. Hope you enjoy my museum!

A hollyhock view of St. Sophia's

One Happy Bee

Sunrise from our window

Straight from the 80's - so popular here(and just why is it in English??)

National Opera - Closed for the Summer

Sidewalk cafes are everywhere

Water wheel

The apartment's mailbox

Evening walk through the monastery

Eye of the Needle

A place dear to me

Our favorite tram

Hidden away in Podil

Two common things - braids and cell phones

Academy of Art and Architecture

There's a new park in the neighborhood

Entry to Shevchenko Museum

International Center of Culture and Arts - Where church was organized in Ukraine

Cheerful flowers

So that was my week and I hope yours was as beautiful.

Quote for the week is one of my favorite songs by Cecil F. Alexander.

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful:

The Lord God made them all.

Each little flow'r that opens,

Each little bird that sings,

He made their glowing colors,

He made their tiny wings.

The purple-headed mountains,

The river running by,

The sunset and the morning

That brightens up the sky.

The cold wind in the winter,

The pleasant summer sun,

The ripe fruits in the garden, 

He made them every one.

The tall trees in the greenwood,

The meadows where we play,

The rushes by the water,

To gather every day.

He gaves us eyes to see them, 

And lips that we might tell

How great is God Almighty,

Who has made all things well.