Observations...

6.04.13.

Weather. Moscow is still covered with deep snow. Snowdrifts are still as high as a human. 

But there is spring in the air. a bit of it. Birds start singing which is a good sign of the coming spring. 

However, weather forecasters predict there will be no spring, just summer after winter. 

We'll see. 

Metro. As we have noticed it's rather difficult to get into a metro carriage, especially during rush-hours. Too many people and almost each of the desires to get a seat. Sometimes you fail to get into a carriage because there are too many people willing to do the same.. or you are brought in the carriage as if you are surfing a big wave..because again there are too many people.. Nobody wants to let people go out from the carriage to get in there then.

To lessen the pressure in the metro, to make it easier to find the right place on the platform to enter the doors of the carriage when the train comes the Moscow government decides to draw yellow lines on the floor which are to show the position of doors. Hope, it will help.

If you are attentive you will surely notice that voices that declare metro stations differ. If you go to the center these are women voices, if you go from the center - a man declares stations. This is made to help blind people.

Streets. It is also interesting that almost on every door in Moscow, either of any shop or a cafe, there is a yellow circle. The Muscovites asked themselves what for there are so many yellow circles.. The answer is the following: these measures have been taken to help people who have a bad eyesight to orientate themselves in the streets. As doctors say, the yellow colour is best seen by such people. As far as the form is concerned, I suppose, the round form is chosen as it resembles the eye, or the pupil of the eye.