Some fall pictures

Wow, that last post was pretty long. If you prefer it in picture form, here it is. Though you will miss the part about cute kids. I'll try to get pictures of them up sometime.

This is the Panorama museum, which we visited several weeks ago. It contains a huge circular mural of the battle of Stalingrad as well as many exhibits about the battle and the war. At least the European theater. The Russians don't seem to acknowledge that the Japanese were ever a threat. Below are pictures of the ruins of a bombed out flour mill, which stand to remind Russians of all they sacrificed in the war and to help Americans understand why Russians believe they shared unequally in the sufferings of the war.

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The next four pictures are of the Central Park of Culture and Leisure. You can see the pitiful amusement park rides that I hope are non-operational. Still, with the changing colors and the natural setting, it was a very nice park. Someone even wanted to make sure the birds could enjoy it and put up a milk-carton bird feeder. There are no squirrels here to steal the seed.
This final picture is of the sunrise the morning after the elections. Currently the sun rises around 6:30, so admiring it filled in one of the gaps in between results.