ALL READY FOR THE DANCE!

 

Had to chuckle at blogger Jack Keane's ( Hartford Daily Photo ) comment on my post yesterday where he wrote that the girls appeared more like 25 than 15. 100% right, BUT not because of their shoes! Older girls would wear fancier shoes, heels at least, but 8th grade girls go for tennis shoes, albeit new and jazzed-up ones. And here's a matching purse! 

EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATION

 My granddaughter here in Serbia on the left and her friend walk toward their middle school to wait for a bus that will take them for an evening at a restaurant on Belgrade's River Island to celebrate their completion of eighth grade.  We never had a big deal like that when I finished middle school!

ACROSS THE STREET

 

Phone shot while I was waiting in the car while son was buying a watermelon.

UNINTENTIONALLY SURREAL

 The building across the way was striking against the dark sky....thought I had clicked it, but then I moved and ended up with this. Still kind of striking!

CURLY

 Couldn't help wonder if this fellow is  happy with such curly hair. I knew girls when I was in grade school/junior high who did not like their curls.  Personally, I think it's cool.

IT' NOT WHAT YOU LOOK AT......

 Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and essayist said in his journal in August 1851, "The question is not what you look at, but what you see."  

 I've always found this very true, especially for photographers. This photo is one I've stuck in my 'urban accidental art' file.

ORANGE PART II

 If you read my post yesterday, you'll see I have succumbed to one of my fetishes again.

ORANGE

 I am beginning to realize I have a chairs/symmetry fetish to add to my laundry fetish, since I know I have posted many photos on those themes. Here's another! 

SCALES OR WATER TOWER/FOUNTAIN?

 

Somebody in the government is hell-bent on imposing cultural monuments around town. These scales stand in the 'terazije' secton of downtown. 'Terazije' does mean scales, implying the kind you see at villagearkets, but the Internet gibes us another more likely meaning: "Terazije street began as a 19th-century settlement established by Prince Miloš Obrenović. Its name derives from the Ottoman Turkish word for "water tower" or "water scale". The Ottomans built these towers at specific intervals to distribute and elevate water pressure, and one such tower stood precisely where the Terazije Fountain stands." A recreation of this fountain is  visible in the background. 

A WALK IN THE HEAT

 Too hot, and I didn't go far. Nice to see someone is taking care of their flowers.

TWILIGHT TIME

 Hi! I haven't posted for six weeks; been in the US but am now back in Belgrade. 

I am going to take a possibly long break from photoblogging so I can devote more time to finishing my 'memoirs'. Need to write more, organize ...but I'll be back!