MDGWeddings: A Walk After the Rain...

It was a beautiful Friday evening, and the rain drizzled a little bit earlier in the afternoon. Everybody left home and I was all by myself, so instead of staying in I thought nothing would be more fun than to go for a walk and take some pictures! As I was leaving my sister showed up and wanted to joined me. I was happy to have wonderful company and a great model for some of my shots!

The stick was trying to cross the street :)

This is the monument of the great Russian writer Gogol which is located on the street that is named after him.

The source of my worst allergies... poplar's down. It flies in the air like dust and gets in everybody's eyes, nose, mouth... everywhere! It is quite annoying and makes a lot of people sneeze... The positive thing is that it is quite pretty - looks kind of like snow in summer :)

These two were fighting for quite some time! Must have been something important...

As I was looking at these clouds I realized that some of the most beautiful clouds I have ever seen I have seen here in Karaganda. I thought these were truly something...

Abay Ibrahim Qunanbayuli, who lived from August 10, 1845 till July 5, 1904 , was a Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened liberal Islam. This monument was just put up in Karaganda in the fall of 2008 and now the city officials are thinking of renaming the street that this monument is on from "Lenin St" to "Abay St", it hasn't happened yet though...