Strawberries
Shashlik apparatchik
Sergei and Sergei skewering up the shashlik
Lots of stuff growing in the garden: onions, garlic, sweet peppers, beets, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, tomatoes, dill. Basically, everything you need to make borsch.
What's left of "Bugs Bunny". One of the many dishes we had for dinner was a tasty stuffed rabbit.
Fresh strawberries from the garden
A photo of some of the members of my host family in Bila Tserkva. (from the left) Sergei's mom, Sergei's nephew (Dima), Sergei, Olyeca and Sergei's brother-in-law (also Sergei)
Cherries
Shashlik on the grill
Lots of Ladas. Still the most popular car on the roads in Ukraine, despite the large concentrations of Mercedes and Audis driven by the "new rich"
Sergei tending the grill.
The finished product of the culinary artist. Bro, that's some tasty shashlik.
They are trying to take advantage of the fact that I have had too much samangon to drink and are trying to persuade me to eat some raw eggs. (From the left) Sergei's father, me, Olyeca, Sergei's brother-in-law (also Sergei), and Sergei's sister.
Sergei fixin' to do some shashlik-ing.
What could this discarded piece of a Soviet aircraft possibly be?
If you guessed "outhouse", you were correct.