Windows to Russia

-10 below zero and the wind is blowing at about 20 kph. That statement called for a second cup of coffee today, as I still am trying to adjust my old bones to the weather this year. Boza has grown his winter coat and he also seems to be already adjusted to the frozen ground […]

I have been posting a lot of recipes. I am trying to get them done before the holidays get to far into a full swing and I seem to be running out of time. This is a simple Jello as we call it in America. The Russians eat very little varieties of jello or Jelly […]

Kizhi Pogost is amid one of the many abounding islands on pleasant Lake Onega in the near arctic part of Karelia. The pogost, or enclosure, contains two amazing wood board churches dating from the eighteenth century and a towered belfry was constructed in the nineteenth century. Distant Churches like the Kizhi Pogost, were accustomed to […]