The weather has been rather strange lately, with clear, sunny, warm skys suddenly transformed into dark clouds with lightening, thunderbolts, and rain within an hour. I am enjoying the green that is just everywhere now, with the cherries already hitting the markets. Soon it will be apricots, plums and mulberries, then watermelons, and so on. In America, the effect of seasons is hardly noticeable at the grocery store with fruits being grown in greenhouses, and imported from the southern hemispherre. Here you are deluged with incredibly cheap produce in the summer and fall, while the winter and early spring are the season of potatoes, cabbage, beets and carrots... is it any wonder the Russians eat so much borsht (sp?) Their winters are much longer than the one in Yerevan. People here can fruits and vegetables like mad all summer so that in the winter they can have some preserves and jams.