my journey to the Alphabet Land (day S)

My next post for the Alphabet Hunt challenge by @barbara-orenya. This time we had to find words starting with letter "S". It was not hard, as there exist thousands of different S-words around us.

S — Scissors

I love scissors a lot; I dont collect them, but adore a good vintage shape and feel fascination... cant pass by without taking a pic or two :P
Left one is a very special scissors, for taking away a candle's snuff. One in the middle, is a replica for traditional middle-ages scissors, from Holland. The right one is a more usual shape from 1st half of XX century.

S — Strings

Those strings belong to a violin of my family's good friend daughter. We visited them on vacations and took part in their home orchestra. I played on vargan (jewish harp), and my wife tried violin. Very memorable evening it was!

S — Sea snail's shells

I took this macro with the shells I have in my collection. I like sea shells and collected them a lot when I was a teenager.

S — Secret door

Captured this at the Russian countryside. This really looked like to me as a secret backdoor for some boy or girl living behind that fence.

S — Sail master

Captured this during my second travel to Ladoga skerries back in 2007. This is one of our captains (we had two teams, two boats, and two captains on that occasion).

Here is a close-up version of same foto. Its a pure pleasure to look at such folks faces. Brave and powerful and Skilled men, masters of the Sea!

S — Soviet

'Hammer and Sickle' is a famouse Russian emblem symbol of the Soviet State, which existed on the territory of Russia from 1917 to 1991. Recently I was walking across the city, and noticed this architectural follie on one of the old buildings. It is really huge, more that 6-8 meters!

Foto #2 - another (full) edition of a soviet state' crest, this one I captured at the St.Petersburg wagon plant. It is not that big (less then 50cm), but looking pretty much solid.

All the images taken by me, as always.

I created an index to my posts for this great challenge.

A: @qwerrie/my-jorney-to-the-alfabet-land-a
B: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-b
C: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-c
D: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-d
E: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-e
F: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-f
G: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-g
H: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-h
I: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-i
K: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-k
L: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-l
L: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-l-part2
M: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-m
N: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-n
O: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-o
P: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-p
Q: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-q
R: @qwerrie/alphabet-land-r

Hope you enjoyed travelling with me. Come back next week, and join the fun!