Paige arrived today at 11:00, and I had already made up my mind to go back to Saint Francis Church with my camera and take better pictures of this Chopper. I thought there would be fewer people today because it's a workday, and then I remembered that many people took Monday and Tuesday off to give themselves a 7-day weekend due to New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
When I got to the church and went inside, there were not that many people there. It was a good opportunity to take the pictures without the interruptions of people watching in front of the camera. 0
Fortunately, I took my tripod with me and my long lens. I ended up taking 78 pictures. I posted them all on my blog today so you can see how beautiful this szopka is. It's really very creative, and one of the best in Greater Poland.
I spent about an hour and a half there taking the pictures, and when I was done, I had time to stop at Cafe Lokum and have a cinnamon muffin with a coffee latte. While I was there, I checked my phone and read the latest message from President Zelinsky about the situation of obtaining peace. I doubt the Russians, I mean Putin, will accept it because I believe he wants to continue the war.
When I returned home, I downloaded all the pictures to a pen drive and showed them to Joan and Paige. We have seen this szopka before, but Paige had never even heard about it. So, I wanted to introduce her to it.
I saw a video of where we used to live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and yesterday they received 30 inches of snow in a blizzard. That is a lot of snow, but not unusual for the U.P..
Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
With only scattered troops left inside the city and supply lines broken, Ukrainian officials say Moscow is quietly conceding what it long denied: Kupyansk is not under Russian control.
The commander of a Russian unit fighting together with Ukrainians in the hope of overthrowing the Putin regime was killed in combat in the south of Ukraine.
Ukraine said Thursday it used British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike a major oil refinery inside Russia, marking another long-range blow to Moscow’s energy infrastructure.
Ukrainian UAVs struck the headquarters of Russia’s 14th GRU Brigade near Mariupol. The night strike killed 51 Russian troops and wounded 76 more, says Madyar, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF).
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said its air force hit the Novoshakhtinsk oil products plant in Russia’s Rostov region, reporting “numerous explosions” at the site. Source-Kyiv Post
