My day started out with a blood-draw (all routine, not due to a problem) then I walked over to Toyota to meet Susan who was waiting for the cars routine maintenance. It is now ready for our first trip to the cabin in April.
Since my blood-draw required fasting we stopped at Village Kitchen so I could get some coffee and breakfast (which I shared with Susan; it was her second breakfast).
Still looking at sketches of plants from last spring looking for the muse to get me drawing again.
Behind our house we spotted the Trumpeter Swans on their first day back.
Here they are side-by-side waiting for the pond to thaw.
The situation in Ukraine makes me think about the Crimean War in the 1850s when Russia invaded what is now Moldova, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Later, when Poland was recreated in 1918 after World War I parts of western Ukraine were then part of Poland. My Polish grandmother was born in a small village between Lvov (now in Ukraine) and Crakow, Poland. When I asked her the name of the village where she was born she told me that it had changed so many times that she no longer knew the current name. I wish that I had pressed her on the name when she was born.
More tomorrow…
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