Visiting Neighbors

 

This past week, the weather being exceptionally nice for garden work, we went to visit a neighbor.  Doamna Tatiana's (on the left) neighbor is Doamna Zoia.  She is a retired school teacher and in fact was one of Doamna Tatiana's first teachers for Romanian.  She was glad to have us thin out some of her perennials around her back yard.  You can see Domnul Sergiu going to work here with the "lopata" (shovel).  Before we could leave, she invited us in for a visit or course.  Here are some pictures from inside her house.  First there is the wall heater, or "soba"  which is a beautiful tile piece.  Some examples of her needle point are framed on the wall.  And of course some real flowers in the window.  Wall coverings are popular types of decoration in the homes as you see by this example of a brown "covor" or rug.  Being a teacher, she loved books.  And of course an icon or two of important saints.  What was most spectacular though was a collection of her own crocheted work.  Table clothes and decorations, place mats and other pieces of fine detail that I haven't seen since my grandmother's time.  And she did it all with her string and two needles.