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Favorite flowers: Irises, Bluebells, Periwinkles, Morning Glories, Wildflowers, Empress Purple Orchids, Scottish Thistles, Lilacs, Asters, Tiny white daisies, Snowdrops, Blue Hydrangeas, Sweet Peas, stirling roses, White Lilies

Favorite sports: gymnastics, especially Russian style and ballet. Hiking, and would go hang gliding.

Favorite day: Monday, then Friday and Saturday.

Favorite number: 7

Favorite colors: lilac, grey, blues. I also like ice blue or sky blue.

Favorite weather: light rain, mist, dew, cloudy, moonlight and windstorms

Favorite music: modern rock, classic, some classic rock

Favorite rock group: lifehouse, aerosmith, and Blondie...

Favorite films: Gladiator, Braveheart, Somewhere in Time, Ladyhawke

Favorite countries: Scotland, Ireland, Europe in general, never been to Greece or Japan

Favorite sport stars you've never heard of: *Dmitri Bilozerchev, *Katia Gordeeva, Dina Kochetkova, Nadia Comaneci '76 (before my time). *Nadezhda Gracheva, Elena Grasheva, Tatiana Gutsu, *Tatiana Groshkova, Svetlana Khorkina, and *Svetlana Boguinskaya. I like the Russians because they have the most balletic but hard, precise style.

Favorite flavors: Raspberry, blackberry, and blueberry. (Wild berries.) Cranberry. Mint and ginger.

Favorite trees: Silver white birches, maple, beech, ash, oak, hazelnut, chestnut, hawthorn. The Black Forest. Ash, maybe sycamore.

Meat: I only eat white chicken, lamb and crab, tuna, eel sushi, and trout sometimes.

I love vegetables like French green beans, white cabbage, cucumbers, iceberg lettuce, water chesnuts, cauliflower, brocolli (sometimes), bell peppers, and celery. Golden squash. I love turnips.

Cheese: blue cheese, fat-free swiss.

Nuts: hazelnuts and cashews. Macadamia nuts.

favorite spices: I love cayenne, sage, nutmeg, cardamom, thyme, ginger, and sometimes garlic and fines herbes cheese. Tarragon, sometimes cinnamon.

favorite drinks: coffee, lots of it. And Diet beverages. Coke, sprite, pepsi, royal crown, mountain dew.

favorite bad food choice: cheetos crunchy and honey-mustard pretzels.

Favorite desserts: berries and cream, fairy cakes, white divinity, raspberry angel delight, white chocolate mousse cheesecake.

favorite candy: junior mints and berry fondant creams. Raspberries and blackberries. Lindt chocolate (sssh) and white Godiva. Violet, and rose creams at Thornton's. On the silly side, I like mini Swedish fish, jelly rats.

favorite cats: ocelots and cheetahs. Siamese kittens.
favorite subjects: Roman history, ancient histories, astronomy, Russian Cold War, Greek myths

Other favorite animals: mice, seals, burros, horses, gazelles, bunnies, sea horses. Unicorns and Pegasus!!! I love small birds.
Favorite birds: I was given a book on birds at age 9. I love sparrows, storks, swans and cranes, doves, sparrowhawks, blue jays, crows, merlins, rock pipits, swifts, peregrine falcons, nightengales, purple sandpipers, ravens, thunderbirds, the mistle thrush, kittiwake sea gulls, love birds, wild mute swans, hummingbirds, nightingales, swallows, cuckoos, canaries, and starlings. When I was little I loved puffins and little blue herons. People also used to call me stork legs!!

Favorite bugs: I love bugs. We have so many spiders sometimes where we used to live. I like bees, ants, crickets, aphids, and grasshoppers. The preying mantis and the walking stick bug, and ladybugs. I liked millipedes and centipedes, and fireflies, too.

I am a cat person, and allergic to dogs. We had a whippet mix when I was a child. so I guess that is my favorite. Recently I started to like the miniature poodle, for the cute face.

Favorite instruments: oboe, spanish guitar, violin.

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Favorite composers:Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, Saint Saiens "The Swan", and Holst:The Planets, Jupiter. Also Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata. Albinoni's Giazatto. )