Kazakh Tales. See The Best, Ignore The Ugly.
Fri Jul 21 2006

This is just the way it happened – we go somewhere, we tend to take nice pictures. Not the pictures of dilapidated houses, decayed facades and weeds overgrown in the courtyards. I thought, I’d take in memory all the details about my town, beautiful or ugly…I ended up with the image of that one side of the town, that makes me feel good, makes me feel proud, makes me feel tears in my eyes when walking down the Memory Lanes…that wasn’t on purpose…just happened naturally…I think now, this is better, actually. I love this town and when we love, we only see the best things and ignore the ugly...of course there were other sides to the coin…Of course I will forget which building went ramshackle and which road becomes unusable during heavy rains…But do I need to remember? Sweet and beautiful memories I have. Sweet and beautiful they will stay with me forever.

The memories of the Irtysh-river
Irtysh

Birch Alley along his banks.
Birches

The memories of a cosy wooden bridge across some forgotten unnamed river
bridge over untroubled waters

Or memories of a town Theatre, where, by the way, my best childhood friend is a leading actress…

The Town Theatre

OK, now I’m getting really concerned about your browser’s scrollability…no more pictures for today, folks.
9 Comments
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 21 2006
    My browser can scroll and scroll and scroll.

    Pretty place you show, and the river is elegant. I especially like the birch lane.

    More pictures. More pictures. Please.
  • From:
    Kordelle (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 21 2006
    beautiful russian svetlana

    well this is spectacular my friend
    I have said before in your journal that the beauty of nature is your religion

    your landscape is soft and beautiful like your personality it is no wonder you have evolved from it (you owe me for this one)

    the irtysh river is beautiful and your angle of perception is revealing and inspirational it really leads you to beleive in the salvation of the word it is a sacred vision
    and how mysteriously enchanting that this vision is intertwined with your youthful vision
  • From:
    Kordelle (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 21 2006
    and what a way to dreamwalk into adulthood through birch valley

    and what an enchanting walkway that bridge must have been for a child it wouldnt be difficult to conjure magical elements drawing from a rich environment like that one

    did you ever notice or sense fairy rings along your walk

    you must have noticed
  • From:
    Kordelle (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 21 2006
    lovely lana
    this is just too good about the theatre are you sure it is true ha ha well it must be it is just too good to make up ha ha

    it seems like such a beautiful historical treasure this theatre

    there is a theatre in my city that has existed for close to a hundred years and very few buildings in my city are treasured for their sense of history they are demolished in the unsacriligous name of progress but this theatre well it is a movie theatre has not been demolished it has been legally declared as a historical building therefore must be left alone

    are there policies similar to this preserving this theatre

    my antique theatre is even the same rose colour

    and your childhood best friend is an actress there how timelessly beautiful
  • From:
    Kordelle (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 21 2006
    and now my friend to razzle dazzle you ha ha

    I had a beautiful childhood I lived with my parents grandparents and aunt and we celebrated our four nationalities

    so I am not complaining about my rich childhood but just to set up some irony haha

    well I have searched my roots in glorious rome but if I wish to return to the physical place of when I was up to ten years old

    well I have to return to the neighborhood in the city where I still live and I have done this many times

    when I was a child I have memories of playing down the street until dusk light in the pale violet scent of the lilac trees that lined the street
    the lilac trees are no longer there

    I have beautiful childhood memories of my grandmothers garden well ofcourse my grandmothers garden is no longer there

    and this is where I lived until I was ten years old

    now it is fucking inner city squalor ha ha ha ha it is the scene of massive drug busts

    there was only one"place" physically that was not only in my heart but that I could find in my neighborhood that brought me to childhood memories
    it was an old french church and I used to always admire the stained glass windows as a child of a sheperd boy playing his maytime flute and the sheep jumping up around him

    and in later years they totally rennovated the church and I lost the memories but the stained glass window of the sheperd boy remained

    and I used to go to midnight mass there (and risk my life ha ha)just to see the sheperd boy but now that is gone and the church has been sold to

    and now there is only inner city squalor sigh but my heart is lined with golden pathways
  • From:
    Razzenne (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 21 2006
    sorry I meant to post under razzenne
    how else can I razzle dazzle you
  • From:
    Deepbluesea (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 23 2006
    What lovely pictures...I love the look of those trees...
  • From:
    Razzenne (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 23 2006
    I said that your sensitivity and talent as a photographer artist was able to cause me to beleive in the salvation of the world well I meant to say world but I said word
    interesting the spelling is so closely related Ive never considered that before
    and I guess we do create the world through the word
  • From:
    Dreamerbooks2003 (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 23 2006
    BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
    more!!! more!!!!!