Today's Pickle Pic: Babushka Natasha's flower garden, May, 2010. #ukraine #springflowers

Today's Mother's Day Pickle Pic: Anya's mother gardening, spring 2010. #ukraine #mom #garden

Today's Pickle Pic: Okroshka (buttermilk, cucumbers and more) kept perfectly cool in the root cellar. #ukraine #soup

Today's Pickle Pic is...pickles! Dill pickles at that. #pickle #ukraine #food

Today's Pickle Pic: Easter at the Bulgakovs, Andrivsky Uzviz, Kyiv, 2010 #ukraine #bulgakov #easter

Today's Pickle Pic, from Sarah: Христос Воскрес! (Khrystos Voskres!) #ukraine #easterbasket

Today's Pickle Pic: a farmer scythes near his team of oxen, date and location unknown. #ukraine #harvest #oxen

Today's Pickle Pic: end of winter at the market--root vegetables galore! #ukraine
#rootvegetables #market

Today's Pickle Pic: dairy counter at the market. Kyiv, April '11 #ukraine #market

Today's Pickle Pic: pickled tomatoes, market in Kyiv, April 7, 2011. #tomato #pickle #market #ukraine

Today's Pickle Pic: Adding up the day, butcher at Kyiv market, April '11 #butcher #meat #ukraine

Today's Pickle Pic: Butcher's counter, market, Kyiv, April 2011. #butcher #pork #ukraine #food

Today's Pickle Pic: cabbage and pussy willows at the market. March, 2011, Kyiv. #cabbage #springatlast #ukraine

Today's Pickle Pic: Harvest, perhaps the 1950s? #ukraine #harvest

Today's Pickle Pic: non-edible, but beautiful, willow basket, by Sarah
#ukraine #basket

Today's Pickle Pic: nuts, pickles, turnips, preserves & conversation. #kyiv #ukraine #food

Today's non-edible Pickle Pic: pussywillows outside the Kontraktova metro in Kyiv. A small sign of spring! #ukraine @spring

Today's porcine Pickle Pic: pig farming on a collective farm #ukraine #pork

Today's Pickle Pic: streetside homemade butter and sour cream for sale, Kyiv, March 19, 2011. #Ukraine, #dairy

Today's Pickle Pic: L'viv market, cabbage and pickled everything! #lviv #ukraine #pickle