Lucky Birch Tree

Last Saturday, we took the train to Nizhny Novgorod (aka Gorky). The city girl in me was midly homesick. Nizhny is bigger than Vladimir, but small enough to be more managable than Moscow. The weather was perfect and we walked all around the city. On the side of a hill grows a lucky birch tree. When a couple gets married, the groom (I think it's always the groom) climbs the tree and ties a ribbon on it - the higher you can place it, the more luck you will have. Here is one lucky gentleman who succeeded in making the trip.