Yuck...

In many places around the world, spring rhymes with flowers, colors, happiness and loving season. Here, it rhymes with mud, dirt, wet feet, and tick-borne encephalitis. The pictures below show the slush and mud that announce the end of the winter. The melting snow also reveals piles of garbage that were nicely covered by snow until now... No, it is not a nice sight. The whole Siberia is transforming into a breeding ground for mosquitoes and other nasty bugs ready to feast on our blood as soon as the snow is gone.

Still... somehow, I am happy spring is here!