my journey to the Alphabet Land (day O)

My next post for the Alphabet Hunt challenge by @barbara-orenya. This time we had to find words starting with letter "O". Pretty easy task, there exist a thousand of good things started from this letter, but I came unprepared and didnt have time to choose what I want to share, and shape a proper post in time. So, I am sending my stuff off the contest, just for the love of the game. Most of decisions were the last-minute, I just looked around and noticed what I can pick up!

O — Olga / Olya

Olya, Olga is a beautiful ancient Russian name of Byzantium origin. My family has a lot of great friends having this name, our Godmother's name is Olga, too! (Oh, and by the way she took part in many Alphabet Hunt rounds in different nominations, as well!). So, its always a pleasure to find some greetings and appreciation for this name. This graffiti I found at the streets of St.Petersburg.

O — Onyx

For this one, I got a hint from @melinda010100 (thanks, Mel! as you see, I used it) -- I took some pictures of my ebook reader. The brand name is Onyx Book, the model name is *Darwin. The Darwin-4 model we happily lived with, for the last 4 years, but all good things inevitably come to the end. We exhausted its charging part, and the screen (the main part of this gadget) became 1/2 unfunctional, so its no use to do any fixing, just no go. For my baby's forthcoming birthday I obtained the newest model, Onyx Darwin 7 -- same beautiful leather case but a new processor and more velocity.

This is not an ad, but if you're considering getting an ebook reader, this is a very good one; ideal proportions, cool design and very reasonable price (about 150$).

O — Oil

Olive oil, fish oil, sunflower oil, linseed oil. Aroma oil... we have a lot of oils in our hOusehold -- was not hard to make a few pics of this stuff!

The fish oil is left from the times our little baby was growing, we used to add it to her diet, but she wasnt too happy with it, hehe

And the linseed oil (besides it is very healthy stuff, when its fresh!) is a delicasy flavoring for our bakery. If you are not in the know, do check! Sometimes it is being referred to as a 'Russian oil', but I believe it is well-known on a wide scale, not exclusively in Russian cuisine!

The seller of a freshly-pressed linseed oil at the Fair. You can see the actual devices used for the oil-extracting process.

O — Omelet

Разрешите поделиться с вами вкусным омлетом. Одно из моих любимых блюд: легко приготовить, легко варьировать ингредиенты и вкус, и никогда не надоедает! (Особенно я люблю готовить его в августе, когда прибывают сезонные помидоры). Но лучший омлет в моей жизни случился в 2012 году; мы отдыхали на курорте Мармарис, и турецкие повара творили с яйцами настоящую магию!!!

Let me share with you a delicious **O**melet! One of my favorite dishes because it's easy to prepare, easy to vary ingredients and customize flavor, and it never gets boring! (I especially love making omelets in August, when juicy seasonal tomatoes and eggplants arrive to a stores.) But I still remember the best omelet in my life happened 8 years ago, during our summer vacays trip to Marmaris resourt, Turkey. Turkish chefs did some real magic with eggs !!!

O — Oak

Theres an Old Oak at the edge of our place, and every year he sends out missionaries around the area whose job is to spread life... But since its our garden all around, I have to dig up these little 1-2 y.o. oak sprouts and look for a new suitable place for them Outside of our site. I was going to create a post about that for #AmazingNature, but did not have time ... but I prepared the photos - and they did not go to waste!

O — Owl

We have collected a decent collection of Owls thru years, maybe I will show it to you one day. Here are just a few copies for you.

All the images taken by me, as always. I considered this round other words that came to my mind, which finally lost their position to more successful rivals: