Impressions of Belgrade and Serbia and maybe photos from an in-country trip by a long-term ex-pat.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN
Today's my birthday, and I share it and my native state with PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL, the Pennsylvania groundhog who according to legend and a bit of kindly forceful extraction, I imagine, emerges from his hibernation to see or not to see his shadow. If he sees it, six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see it, spring is on the way sooner than later. Not sure if that's valid for just Punxsutawney or elsewhere, but today here in Belgrade it's raining...and cloudy...no shadow! Woo!
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THREE ON A BENCH--BASTILLE DAY
I took this photo around 1972 in Paris. Three people sitting on a bench below Ile-Saint-Louis. I often wonder what lives this people led, f...

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Happy Birthday, Pat! 🎈🎉
Well Happy Birthday anyway. Just coming out of an ice storm here, so a bit of rain sounds pretty OK to me here in TX. Ha.
Joyeux anniversaire Pat. D'après ce que j'ai lu, encore 6 semaines d'hiver… tant mieux quelque part car la chaleur et la sécheresse nous attendent au tournant.
Happy birthday!
In Ontario the primary groundhog prognosticator is a fellow named Wiarton Willie.
Hey, happy birthday! Hope it was a fun day for you!
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