This is for a certain South African barbarian in Tokyo:
This is for Olesik in Moscow:
*facepalm*
This is for Agnia in Tashkent:
All snow leopards were hiding, sorry...
I didn't find tikli (Carduelis carduelis), so here is tilhi (Bombycilla garrulus) :)
And for everyone:
И для всех:
“I'm really bored.”
«Мне тааак скучно.»
“Gosh, I'm so pretty.”
«Боже, я такой красавчик.»
My present is a Przewalski's horse? MWAH! Big kiss thank you спасибо!
ReplyDeleteUh-oh. Now she's going to tell me that women are supposed to say spasibA not -bo, or that it's inappropriately formal or informal ...
Oh never mind, who cares about language?, look, it's a Przewalski's horse! This is better than chocolate!
Thank you, Ekaterina, from a very happy barbarian! (^0^)
Imagine a piece of chocolate size of a horse... with mane and tail of white chocolate ^.^
DeleteI have a book by Przewalski (the man, not the horse), but I haven't read it yet. I wonder if these horses are there and what he wrote about them.
Last November a new horse was born in the zoo, we saw it today. I'll post more later :) It's already quite big but still baby-cute.
I'm pretending this is a collection of my horse's family portraits! :D
ReplyDeletePS: Guess who's now seeing visions of horses galloping over the steppe, and northern (eastern?) barbarians battling it out, and ...
Ah, in one of my books there will be a few chapters (I think) set in Mongolian steppes a few centuries ago. It'll be a fantasy/sci-fi book but no elves, dwarves or dragons.
DeleteSo finish that book already so that I can read it! :D
DeleteThat one is still on the stage of "collect as many ideas as you can, outline the first draft, make research and hope to one day write the novel" :)
Delete))) скромные барсы и впрямь не любят внимание! А почти тикли мне даже больше понравился))
ReplyDeleteОни так близко сидели, прям напрашивались на фотосессию :) Это зал, где птицы не отгорожены от тебя ничем, хотя они всё равно к посетителям не лезут. Вот там была целая стайка свиристелей :)
DeleteGreat shots!Amazing how many languages you know! Thanks for visiting my blog and taking time to comment.
ReplyDeleteThank you, lotusleaf!
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