Thread: Frightening photos from my home town.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

gRomoZeka & Zaya, thank you for explaining and for the photos. These trees are soooo lovely and I have never seen anything like your chestnuts. One more "silly" question... do the flowers give off a fragrance?

No, as far as I remember, they don't. But these days lilacs are in blossom too, so we have something else instead. ))

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Also Zaya, your second photo brought back a memory for me of a bush that we have around here and that I had right outside my bedroom window as a child; a “honeysuckle bush.” Do you have them in Russia?

I am from Ukraine and I have never seen it although the word "жимолость" is familiar to me. According to my encyclopaedia it does grow in Russia, but not in all its regions.