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Bobbie on Cupcakes for whom?
I'm looking around but I don't know how to put something in here can anybody read this? Hi, any way.

MOM NN PHIL on Ну ты что!?
WE'RE B B B BLOGGING

MOM NN PHIL on Diskoteka!
help us! how does one converse? just with this here comments button?

Aunt Deb on Прощай
Does that mean they're glad to see you go? ( I doubt it!) And I'll personally be glad to see you in a few ...

Aunt Deb on Kiosks
that last comment was for the flower ladies... oy vey

Aunt Deb on Kiosks
They don't call, they don't write!

Aunt Deb on getting ready to celebrate
So there is room for some window display improvement, I see. Helen, I've gone through your pictures backwards and ...

Aunt Deb on Diskoteka!
I'm looking through all of these backwards. In retrospect, all they need is a few ping pong tables.

Aunt Deb on Family meets the family
People here used to tell me that my hair was getting blacker. I took that as some kind of sign of familiarity.

Aunt Deb on The not boring garden
This might be my favorite. There is a famous Japanese movie about a little hot springs town that tries to rejuvenate ...

Aunt Deb on Visiting Dostoevsky
You and Pamela would have a lot to talk about re unexplainable days off in foreign countries!

Aunt Deb on Wisdom
...or very cheesy

Aunt Deb on Holiday Season
I want me one of them hats!

Aunt Deb on The big refridgerator
For some reason this reminds me of my early years in Japan. We had a fridge (which Uncle Mel would later famously ...

Rebecca on Always with us
I just went back to look at comments and saw your comment about the little Lenin--went back and only noticed him now ...

peter on The big refridgerator
enigmatic!

max on Holiday Season
i agree. this one is exceptionally good. and somehow exceptionally russian

Rebecca on Valya
Is this your host mother? This is a beautiful portrait--give her my love, love, mom

Annie-Rose on Holiday Season
oh, and the hats!!

Annie-Rose on Holiday Season
I love this picture-- I think it's very telling. The composition (sorry, I don't know photography, but I ...

Rebecca on Wisdom
now I see--Bart (not Homer) is appreciating Uzbek traditional art. Very clever.

Rebecca on Wisdom
Who knew that Homer Simpson was a traditional Uzbek Icon.

Mary on Red Square
Is it as cold as it looks? It's warm here in NY, close to 70 degrees today. I hope you have a Happy ...

Rebecca on Red Square
Hi Helen, Grandma is finally looking at your blog! Happy thanksgiving!

ym on View from the Hermitage
Awesome, Helen! ....love the geometry....the mood, the sense of place. ...classic HSR! : ) YM

max on View from the Hermitage
agreed. very beautiful. good clouds.

Rebecca on View from the Hermitage
This is beautiful!

Mary on Visiting Dostoevsky
Well, the country may be cold and gray and melancholy, but you are taking some amazing photographs. I am so impressed ...

Sarah on Ну ты что!?
This is possibly the best pictures of Russia ever. Seriously. Now I know why you deserve to carry around that big ...

max on The not boring garden
weird country.

Rebecca on Visiting Dostoevsky
more seriously .. the personal nature of this makes this a very sweet photograph.

Rebecca on Visiting Dostoevsky
are they both Maschas? (just kidding...) love, rebecca

Helen on The not boring garden
Always with us is refering to little lenin floating back there. Also, I immediately thought of Pipo when I saw the ...

jray on The not boring garden
Pipo really needs to take a picture there. Or you could make a Pipo picture for him. Just have a couple of ...

Rebecca on The not boring garden
Hi Helen, the mysterious ping pong tables and the bars. I was curious about the picture "always with us." ...

Jordan on Моя Комната
Hi. I just found this website today, and I hope things are lovely and that you will call me when you get back. I ...

Mary on Around the Corner
How often are there accordian players around? Any other street musicians?

Dmitrij Mantyckij on Ну ты что!?
отлично )

Dad on HOTEL KOSMOS
This is where Angela and I went to register when we visited Helen. The Russian government makes all of the ...

Dad on Family meets the family
Как можна направлять письмо? Ты знаешй? Можно после того, когда ...

Dad on Family meets the family
Молодец, Ленка! Ты – фото–царина Москвы. Приветствуй твою ...

Rebecca Stuhr on Backstage
Once again, I love it!

ym on Tolstoy's Grave
Hi! ...this one is most intriguing to me...what a lushcious setting,... picturesque...solemn....very disquieting, but ...

Rebecca Stuhr on Ну ты что!?
several days later, this is still one of my favorite. Helen, I saw a fantastic photography exhibit today--wish you were ...

Rebecca Stuhr on Around the Corner
It was cold in Grinnell today--but we had no accordion to accompany us along our chilly path.

Max on Around the Corner
it looks very cold and the people seem unhappy.

ym on The view from my window
i really like this one a lot--a more poignant view perhaps of the city, a sense of mystery or a story beyond. Awesome! ...

Dimitrios on Around the Corner
NICE ATMOSPHERE WITH THE MUSIC ALL AROUND

Rebecca Stuhr on Ну ты что!?
finally, a new picture! I love it!

hannah on Cupcakes for whom?
hi helen-- you rule and i miss you. i hope your CRUISE was awesome.

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