Just out enjoying Odessa, Ukraine, on this sunny spring morning.

Some sights are unique to Ukraine, like these street cleaning women in their neon-colored vests…

Others are not…

The city is beginning to show a few signs of spring…

Some buildings are in desperate need of refurbishing…

I would love to have seen this city in its glory days in the late 1800’s…

And in any language and any country, ruby red slippers (shoes) remind me there is “no place like home.”

And mine is just over the rainbow in Texas… in only five more days…