Days in June

 

All the days in June are going by quickly.  We started the month with a new class of Peace Corps Trainees coming to Moldova on June 5th.  Here you see part of the welcome committee at the Chisinau airport waving from the observation roof.  I'm wearing my Stefan cel Mare t-shirt. The new volunteers are bused to a welcome site and given the traditional Moldovan welcome of bread and salt.  We've had our share of storms come through the village this month.  Plenty of thunder and lightning.  Here are the two calves born this Spring to our herd at the Leca household.  They seem to be growing well.  Yes, chocolate and white milk.  Next you see my friend Robyn in the green sweater fixing some lunch for a group gathering at her house to celebrate our first year in Moldova.  Her porch has this million dollar Moldovan view.

And June 16th was a birthday for our nephew, Marius.  He was 11 years old.  Here you see his mom, Lilia holding his little brother Liviu. and both his grandmas and me.   That next picture is family too.  That's my son, Amos, who lives in Hawaii.  He just started a new job in the grocery business this month.  Congratulations, Amos!  Weather has been summery here.  High 70's and 80's.   I went for a Saturday stroll along the riverside.  Saw some horses, cows in the river and by the river.  The picture after the cows, look below the river bank, center to see if you can pick our the blue heron I saw.  Then there was this guard goose that honked me past his drive way.  A good day for a goose group swimming party.   Ah, a country style picnic table.  What can I say, the flowers were photogenic and the corn is coming along fine.   It was a perfect day in June.