"Christmas" lights at last . . . I took this picture on the eighth of January. I'm not sure you can call them Christmas lights when the only place I could find a Christmas card was in a Bible book store. There were plenty of holiday greeting cards, all emphasizing the New Year. Last year we didn't see lights like these in Nikolaev.
A group of holiday carollers left the fine arts building of Nikolaev as we were parked in front of it on January 14th. These are Ukrainian folk carollers, what they do only very slightly resembles Christian carolling in that they sing. Notice the goat's head held up as a holiday emblem. The person in the back with the long blond braids and red painted cheeks is another part of their celebration, a cross-dresser. Seth told me a girl was there, dressed as a guy as well, but it didn't catch my attention.
Elaborate baby carriages are considered a necessary item for every city baby and a few country babies as well. Babies need fresh air, you see. So good mothers take them on walks almost every day. Sometimes a brother, a cousin or a grandma or grandpa will take the baby out, standing in for mama.
Cleaning the streets is still a manual job in most cities here. Vehicles of every sort carry mud and debris into the city streets. Workers go along sweeping it all up into piles and then shovel it into trucks as this one is.
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I thought the days of street sweepers [by hand] were long gone!
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