Love the food in that part of the world. Especially borscht (sp?).

Sick. Can’t sleep. Stomach hurts. Read an entire biography of James Madison. Stop whining. I’ll turn on Aljazeera for awhile, see how the world is holding together. Here’s a little photo spread of a few years ago in Odessa, Ukraine. I have some better photos I think;  these were taken with an old cell phone. Odessa is a beautiful city and seems to have missed the worst of this violence. I hope.

Odessa shipyards

Black Sea, extremely polluted. When I stuck my foot in disgusting things floated around my toes.

Strange and wonderful candies.

Loved walking these streets. European but eastern and seafront and somehow a little exotic and sometimes shabby.