We had a ride not far from Vyazma town in Smolensk region on June 20, 2009. That’s where these two photographs were made. On the first one you see a lake called Rusyatka, which is located about 7 miles from the town of Vyazma. The sun was already sinking and there were clouds in the sky when I photographed the lake.

Here are pines on the photograph below, these trees are wide-spread in Russian forests: