Continuing in the second post because of picture number limit.


A seagull in flight.



Curious exhibits: thin agate plates with natural stone ornament, lit from behind.



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I have recently returned from Crimea and brought some nice pictures with me. You are welcome to watch!

And, if you are wondering, for how long I'm going to keep my lazy butt away from spaceflight events tracking on the forum - yes, I'm so sorry about my negligence of it. But RL is too intrusive lately, I have done many promises I can't break to various people. If favorable winds blow, I will finish my global launch threads reference table to begin with.

And now, enjoy...

"Forty five seconds. Good highs good lows, no out lights."
"Firefly copies."

So, here we are. Roughly a minute from having four thousand tons of very dangerous things explode underneath us, and we weren't even breaking a sweat.

"Thirty seconds. All arms retracted."
"Roger, arms clear."

I looked over at the other two, sitting to my right.

"In the infamous words of a certain person,...