LOOKING UP

 A delivery man was waiting for his customer to pick up the bouquet of tulips he's holding on International Women's Day on March 8th. 

Tomorrow I'll show you what he was looking up at.

URBAN STILL LIFE

 I have taken lots of photos of 'things' on the street that don't always fall into a particular category, and so I call all of them 'urban still lifes'. Here's another!

WHERE'D CLIVE GO?

 Anyone remember the Clive the Talking Leopard commercials for Schweppes circa 1998?  Clive is gone, but his tail remains.

HAPPILY RETIRED

 My dog's tennis ball is really happy it's retired. 

TIME TO BE FIXED

Here is our brand-new, 9.5 meter high, 7.5 ton clock, installed right smack in the middle of two main streets that drivers had no trouble navigating. Now drivers must drive around the clock to get to the same place.  

And, ha, it was installed just over 10 days ago and is now not functioning. Here is what Danas, a reliable newspaper, has to say:  The new symbol of Belgrade on  Republic Square has lost its purpose after only ten days. The Belgrade Clock, which cost 10 million dinars (of which about five million dinars were spent on the "most modern mechanism"), not only does not show accurate time, but it no longer even has a hand. The City Administration is silent for now, and Danas' interlocutors believe that the situation with the clock is a reflection of the city government's decision to pay too much for something that will not work, and they emphasize that citizens have the right to know who is responsible for the shortcomings, which are financed from their own pockets."  Ten million dinars is nearly $100,000.

HAPPY IN THE BUS

 This photo brings a smile to my face. The woman is oviously happy, but the pup looks unsure, as if he fears someone will ask him to get off the seat!

LIPSTICK ON HER SKIRT

 LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR by Connie Francis was one of the first teeny-bopper songs I liked.  This girl has lipstick on her skirt!

TEXTING ABOVE THE 'TURKISH' MARKET

A young woman sits texting above what ex-pats here call 'the Turkish' market, though I haven't a clue why. If you're interested in reading about the history of this section of Belgrade, CLICK RIGHT HERE. I learned a lot.

MARCH 2026 THEME DAY--WHITE

 What is white about vanilla? Yes, there is vanilla ice cream, but vanilla extract is not white, although the vanilla flower is. The yellow packet contains about a tablespoon of vanlla sugar, which some cooks prefer instead of the liquid. I'm stretching the theme once again to present to you one more person of color I had NEVER heard of. His name was Edmond Albius, born in Reunion in 1829.  PLEASE click THIS LINK to read about him. He took the last name 'Albius' (white) from the color of the vanilla flower.

Check other interpretations of WHITE RIGHT HERE.

SHOEFITI

 While walking last night, I came upon this dramatic view of pairs of shoes thrown over a power line.  All of us have seen this somewhere in the world. I looked up the significance of shoe-throwing and it varies from the innocent (if you can call 'playing' with power lines innocent) to the more aggressive, i.e. from creating SHOEFITI to asserting a gang's presence in a certain area.

BLONDE JOGGER

We've had some good weather recently, clear and crisp. This isn't a terribly original shot, but I took it with my 50mm lens at a distance and cropped it down. Still sharp.