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Artist Ann Morash, creator & webmaster of LearnPysanky.com and Ann's Ukrainian Gift Shop, shares her unfolding life through her words and photographs.

For the last several years, this blog has been focused specifically on my ruralish life - nature photography, bird watching at our bird feeder, walks in the woods, and so on. Moving to the city (and winter) has changed those aspects of my life. I still cherish many of the same things I did before, I just don't get to explore them much these days. And if I keep the blog as it is and only talk about those things, it'll be months between postings. So I think I'm going to move the focus to include a few of the other things that interest me, too.

Topics include:

• FOOD! - her favorite recipes and city restaurants
• Japanese television - they have some amazingly creative storytelling on Japanese TV, that you just don't see much of anymore on North American tv. I'll also discuss good foreign (well, foreign to North America) :) films I come across.
• Organization - I'm trying to focus on reorganizing my space, and my time, to fit everything that I have to do, in! Somehow! BIG fan of Peter Walsh.
• Ruralish life in Nova Scotia (of course) - birdwatching, gardening (Ann's annual struggle with veggie gardening, entitled BeanDreams), and environmental issues/green living.
• Ukrainian heritage - holiday celebrations, FOOD! & cultural observances stemming from her Ukrainian heritage.
• Her furry family - a bright but over-energetic dog, and an ever-increasing number of cats she and her boyfriend have rescued from the wild.
• Her latest ornamental art designs & shop updates - from Ukrainian folk art, to Celtic and Japanese designs, and everything in between!

Here's a cast of blog characters :

Ann Morash	Dave - my honey since '93
Molly - our cranky-old-lady cat; she can still be sweet though! Named for Paul Molitor's nickname.	Baby Boy - our cuddly, but thuggish, cat. Born feral, we caught him in our backyard, tamed him through vet-recommended "forced cuddling", & have loved him ever since.
Peepers - one of two stray cats that came to live with us in 2007. He showed up mysteriously one day, staring in our back window for hours and hours, unblinking. We fed him, and he never left again (except to hunt a few hours each night in a nearby swamp). Moved indoors with us in July 2007. Still very kittenish, even though he had been living on his own in the wild for a while.	Kuroi, aka Pretty Kitty - our latest furry addition, showed up about a week after Peepers came indoors. This guy is way more feral, and is taking a long time to get used to domestic life. We brought him indoors before the snows started to fly in November, 2007. His name means "Black" in Japanese. Can you tell why he's called that? :) He's so black, it's hard to get a good pic of him because the camera can't focus!
Casey - a sweet, goofy oaf. Our best girl, our huge German Shepherd Dog.	Lila - Jack Russell Terrier. Like Casey, an utter fool. Unlike Casey, really fiesty - she doesn't seem to understand she's a tiny dog. Came to live with us via Dave's mom, and is now part of the family.

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