first poltava photo file

as poltava has a university it's not really surprising to find books in public. the first ones are old academic tomes piled around a couple of benches in a little parklike square

the next ones would lead me to believe that pears have replaced apples as the fruit of knowledge. & that pose

& of course there has to be an owl somewhere in town sitting on a few of them trying to look wise & just a little stern