Dacha

It is hard to believe that sixty-one years ago (on April 2, 1948) I arrived in Nakhodka, Soviet Union, as a pantry-boy, aboard the Danish M.S. Grete Maersk. We remained in that port, near Vladivostok, for ten days, unloading gold-mining equipment from the United States. I was equipped with a Baby Box camera.

Dacha is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the exurbs of Russian cities. In some cases, they are occupied for part of the year by their owners and rented out to urban residents as summer retreats.

Which brings me to the attached picture of the Lipnosky Dacha at 12830 Sir Francis Drake, on Tomales Bay, in Inverness. I've often admired the little onion domes in passing, and finally stopped to take some pix last week.