Friday, April 10, 2009

Those Who Sell Me Flowers

Meet Mr. and Mrs. Gavrilović (Gah-VREEL-o-veetch), This pleasant couple parks their Yugo, full of flowers from their little weekend house not far from Belgrade, on a street corner near where I live nearly every weekend beginning right now to around the end of September. This photo is from last fall, but they're back now with spring flowers! Last weekend I bought lots of daffodils, and am waiting for their fresh basil....

19 comments:

~Cheryl said...

How excellent! I'd love to have fresh flowers (and basil) available on my way home. Mmmm!

Stefan Jansson said...

As you can guess I really like this, always interesting to meet the locals.

ninja said...

lol @ the VW cap.

Lowell said...

They appear to be nice people; I'd buy some flowers from them!

Virginia said...

Oh bless them. I'm sure you enjoy getting to know them and buying their beautiful flowers for so many months.
V

Alexa said...

More nice, expressive faces. Beautiful fresh flowers = food for the soul, & theirs look gorgeous.

Thérèse said...

Thursday is market's day but there are no flowers around... so I buy daffodils at Trader Joe's, my favorite place. Do Mr and Mrs Gavrilović sell tarragon? I haven't been able to find any for the last two years.

Kim said...

How fun for you to have them bring their lovely garden offerings so close by. There is nothing like the color and scent of fresh flowers in the house. I wish I could afford to have them all the time. I like the colors of their dahlias, and seeing their smiles.
-Kim

Pat said...

@Therese, no, I haven't seen tarragon here at all, though I bet someone has it. It's not commonly used here.

Marie Reed said...

I haven't heard the car name Yugo in ages!

Raquel Sabino Pereira said...

Nice to meet you, Bibi!!!!!
Fabulous shots you have around here!!!

B SQUARED said...

That is so neat. A wonderful little slice of life.

erin said...

how nice to have a good source of flowers and herbs near by :)
that was nice of you to take their photo and i know you always present a photo to whomever you snap.
have a lovely weekend.

lv2scpbk said...

Beautiful flowers.

Anonymous said...

I buy a lot of flowers but never once thought to take pics of my favorite flower vendors. This I must do! ~acadine

Dan said...

Great portrait shot of this couple Bibi!

GreensboroDailyPhoto said...

They look like the kindest, sweetest, couple. How wonderful to find a husband and wife team enjoying their time together. So often we go off in different directions. Truly a marriage! And oh to surround oneself with the sweet smells and beautiful colors of flowers.

MuseSwings said...

The dahlias are just beautiful! It's nice you have a source for fresh herbs too!

raf said...

A beautiful image and story, Bibi! Would love to have some of that fresh basil now. As you know, it's mid to late summer here before it gets hot enough for basil to do well.

SPRING FASHION

 This is a post that would be better in color, but maybe not. These colors were soooo pale.