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Mike's Photos From The Road #17
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fishing boats docked just off shore in lake baikal, in listvyanka, russia. even bigger than all 5 great lakes of the u.s. combined, lake baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world, situated deep in the heart of siberia.
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the wooden houses that nestle in the valleys of listvyanka are often accented with brilliantly colored shutters.
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winter and autumn co-exist in this part of the world; these trees were covered in snow one day, then covered only in color the next.
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a cold day for a boat ride so the captain is keeping her ashore.
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if the house doesn't have shutters they paint the fence in some outstanding color.
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down at the lakefront, women stand in front of their makeshift barbecues selling smoked fish fresh from the lake. the fish is called omul. $1 for a small one, $1.66 for a large - they hand it to you wrapped in paper and you eat it right from the bone after peeling off the skin. damn, damn good.
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the lake even looks nice when the sun is behind the clouds.
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colorful shutters on a colorful house.
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whenever my family would visit vermont we'd point out battered, broken old shacks and say "that's your house." i don't know why we did so but i still feel that way when i see dilapidated, wooden houses. so sharon, susan, nancy, debra, dave, and mark: here's your house.
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