Once again, way too many things happened today. Some were good, some – very satisfying, some funny, and some sad.
And because I do not feel like writing about the sad things at the moment, I will put here several pictures from the forest preserve. First, the ones I took on Friday early morning, when I was biking.
And today, I went to the forest preserve to check on my scouting area. My summer area is gorgeous, and I walked, and walked, and could not stop marveling the nature. I didn’t find any white sweet clover there, and went to one of the “nobody’s” areas (because otherwise I would feel like I didn’t do anything productive for the prairie!). There, I pulled a couple of dozen of these invasives, and a morning mission was accomplished. And now – some pictures of a beautifully blooming prairie!
That’s how tall they are!Sandhill cranesA compass plant points to the North!
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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