Monday, March 15, 2021

COME LIVE AT THE US EMBASSY


 These are the buildings (foreground, not the higher-risers in the back) of the former US Embassy in Belgrade. Years back a stipulation came into vigor that US embassies have to be a certain distance from the street, so its present location is much farther away and set back....surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall. Little chance of getting a photo of that.  I tried to find a photo online, but they are non-existent or else blurred out.  Sign of the times, maybe, but most other major embassies I googled have photos.

Anyway, now the old embassy is a luxury apartment building...

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 w...