SKYWATCH---lamp post

A sunset-lit lamp post in Kalemegdan Park, with silhouettes of some of New Belgrade's buildings in the background.

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colorful

I love the wild colors I often find on walls, windows, and flowers here.

ABC WEDNESDAY--"Y" is for "yummy, youthful, Yugoslavia..."

All those words and more could describe a recent trip to Djerdap (JER-dap) National Park," located in Eastern Serbia about 3 hours from Belgrade.

I'd been there several times before, but never had seen the rock carving of Decebalus, which is not visible from the road, but only by boat. That's the photo in the middle of my 'postcard'. Decebalus was the last king of Dacia, who fought against the Roman emperors Domitian and Trajan to preserve the independence of his country, which corresponds to modern-day Romania. The carving is located on the Romanian side of the Danube.

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Go vegan!

I never thought I would live to see the day when veganism,  let alone vegetarianism, would be advertised, albeit on walls.

Serbia is meat-eaters' paradise. I hardly ever eat meat.  What about you?

MONDAY MURALS--horses

Caught this mural in the town of Pozarevac, a little over an hour from Belgrade. "Za" is "for" and the first letter below, that looks like an H with a small b attached represents the sound Nj (nyuh).  The other H is an N in Cyrillic.  The word for 'horse' is 'konj' , but I don't know what the H (N) would be...confusing!

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SKYWATCH--crescent moon a little star

Just what the title says:  crescent moon and little star....above a rooftop downtown.

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Proud

Caught this man sitting in Kalemegdan Park during a recent festival.  Somehow, he seemed very proud-looking.

UPDATE:  In response to William's comment, below, here is an explanation of his hat.

ABC WEDNESDAY "X" is for "kisses"

This pair of lovey-dovey pigeons were sighted smooching in a town in northern Serbia.

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Ever wonder....?

Ever wonder who does jobs that we never think about,,, like this fellow preparing Xs to be spray painted in this parking garage?

MONDAY MURALS---on a wall somewhere....

....but I've fogotten exactly where in town this is...

And technically it's not really a mural, but if I'd cropped it, you might have thought it was....;)

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY--fun car

This fun car stands in a gallery that sells wacky art.  Looks  like it might be fun if it were bigger and drivable.

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS---linden tea

Linden tea is delicious; almost as delicious as the linden trees' blossoms are fragrant. The latter saturate the air with a heady, sweet fragrance anywhere from end of May through the beginning of June.
Linden trees are sometimes called lime tree or lime bush, but are not closely related to the trees that produce limes.

Here is a recipe for linden tea.

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SKYWATCH--'Walking home'

Nice moon, the last full one was, and I caught this while walking home. PLEASE enlarge the photo. Like the moon itself, it looks much better bigger.  And you'll see the bird  better.  How's that for an alliterative post?

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The clandestine mulberry pickers...

Two of my friends who accompanied me on our road trip to Bač, Serbia, the other week, decided to indulge in some mulberries.....

ABC WEDNESDAY--"W" IS FOR "WAITING"

I also was sitting at the bus stop waiting, but across the street.

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Spying across the street....

I am an incurable Peeping Tom....but am I really? If you're sitting where everyone can see you, maybe I am not. In any case, while this lady is surrounded by flowers, I am sure she'd love to have this terrace.

MONDAY MURALS--My Belgrade

"Moj Beograd" (My Belgrade) shouts this mural I snapped from the bus.

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY--dozing

A flashback to a couple of years ago, since I don't have a recent Belgrade shadow.

This fellow was dozing in the airplane on his way to Marseille, France

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS on a pitcher, in a glass

A recent road trip led me to a wonderful ethno-restaurant in the northern Serbian town of  Bač  (rhymes with 'watch').

Here's my glass, awaiting wine, with a pitcher of water behind it.

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SKYWATCH--across the river view to town

The bird also has a view of the side of the river where I was when I took this picture....

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A little corner of paradise

For the most part, many of Belgrade's older buildings are sad-looking. Grey, crumbling facades, grafitti....  The one seems fairly well kept-up, and has been enhanced by someone's little garden.

ABC WEDNESDAY--'V' is for the 'Victor' and his friend...

Recently there was a festival in Kalemegdan Park, and this fellow appeared....

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Awkward or comfortable?

And just for the record,he wasn't carrying anything in his left hand.  I would have 'shot' this fellow to show his empty hand, but I was in the bus.

MONDAY MURAlS in Odzaci

Yesterday I went on a road trip with some friends to the northern part of Serbia, a region called Vojvodina (VOY-vuh-dee-na).  We ended our trip there before returning to Belgrade with a visit to an ice cream store in Odzaci (UD-jah-tsee), next to which this large mural (actually a mosaic, but I'm desperate) was created.


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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY--triangles

I was sitting with a friend on the terrace of Hotel Moskva, sipping a lemonade and wondering where I'd find a shadow shot for today's post.

And all of a sudden, there it was, right in front of me.  Actually, it was across the street a bit, but thanks to my 300mm lens, here it is close-up.

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS--Upper Danube Reserve

Last Saturday I took my granddaughter on a trip to the Upper Danube region, not far from Sombor in Serbia, where there is a beautiful nature reserve and a nearby private zoo.

Here are two black swans from the zoo.

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Theme Day--June 'Me'

Moi, in the center, in 1968, in Paris....and I seem to be the only one of the three who doesn't seem cold. But I was....I remember feeling positively frozen and my feet were damp. Love the knee socks....

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