LOOK 'HOO'S' HERE

 And just in time for Halloween! A North American Spotted Owl flew ino my daughter's backyard last night.

Apples

 

At first glace I thought these were quinces, but they're apples.

BIGFOOT IS AROUND

 Bigfoot or Sasquatch, according to legend,  is indeed big....but not this big.

SUNSET OVER THE PACIFIC

 

Sunset at Seabrook, Washington.

"YA TALKIN' TA ME?"

 

When I first saw this huge cat (bigger than my dog), I immediately thought of Robert De Niro's classic line from Taxi Driver. 

Haunted...

My granddaughter poses iver this haunted house we put together from a kit. In Belgrade for Christmas, I make a gingerbread one from scratch. This one is a chocolate cookie one and I am sure it will taste good.
 

GARDENING NEVER DIES

 Ardent gardeners. Seen in Seattle.

ONLY FOR SMURFS

 A family of these highly toxic mushrooms sprouted up by the curb on a neighboring street. Pretty, but possibly deadly. Only for Smurfs.

CHOCOLATE....

 

Seattle is known not only for its many coffee shops, notedly Starbucks  (which is not my favorite) but also for its chocolate. Went out to dinner with two friends last night and we shared this sinful German Chocolste cake with caramel sauce and crispy almonds.

AUTUMN AND URBAN COLORS

 

(Nikola) TESLA in the 'hood

 Not really NIKOLA TESLA  himself of course, but the electric car bearing his name.

HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY

 

At least they're up-front! 😁--Yankee's in Seattle until January.

78....

 

Seattle has hills and it has many stairs, especially in my daughter's neighborhood. There are 78 stairs in this photo. At home in Belgrade I have no elevator to take me up and my 98 stairs...which I climb and descend 3 times a day 'thanks to' my dog.

MY FAVORITE SEATTLE HOUSE

I have admired this house for years. I am in Seattle now until mid-January so Yankee will be posting from Washington state.

 

MONDAY MURALS-LOVELY IN LAVENDER

 

And those garlic eyelids....

See other murals on MONDAY MURALS.

SKYWATCH In the air

 

Am in the USA now. Flyin' high!

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KU KLUX GHOST?

 

I was waiting at a red light downtown when I noticed this stain on a wall across the street. Maybe it's because Halloween is just around the corner, but at first I thought it looked like a ghost. However, it's hood and cross shape in front of the figure looks more like a Ku Klux Klan ghost.

MONDAY MURALS--QUEEN NATALIE OF SERBIA

 A huge mural of Serbia's QUEEN NATALIE, wife of Milan I Obrenovic of Serbia, who ruled from 1882 to 1889.  Queen Natalie was a celebrated beauty in her youth and was later regarded as one of those most beautiful queens in Europe.

See other murals on MONDAY MURALS.

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY-The Best Butcher Shop

Morava butcher shop is known and praised all over Belgrade. This is their first location, and they have opened a restaurant as well. Always a lot of people waiting. I hardly ever eat meat, so I am spared this line. 

See other shadows on SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY.
 

JUST A MAN AND HIS DOG----SWINGING

 Hmmm...I doubt the dog asked for this, but rather the older man is satisfying his inner child. We all do. I do constantly. 😀

TAKE-OFF

 Taking off is what I will  be doing next Thursday. Long stay in US, so many of my posts after that day will be from the USA.

In the meantime, here's a pigeon taking off from the top of a very tall fountain with a cracked wall behind it.

IT'S BUZZIN' AT THE PARK

 

Okay, honestly I didn't hear any bees buzzing, but there certainly was a lot of human swarming around the stands at the 49th Annual International Honey Fair. You need to take 'international' with a grain of salt....or sugar. As far as I could tell, the international flavor was given by several former Yugoslav republics, now countries of their own.

SHATTERED SKY

 

I stood gazing at this building for several minutes, trying to figure out what this arrangement of reflective pieces meant. If they are mirrors, somebody's going to have a lot of bad luck.

I prefer to call it 'shattered sky'.

Fall is here

There's a nip in the air, people are wearing jackets, and morning mist is common. No leaves changing color yet, but I am looking forward to that.

 

"SO ROUND, SO FIRM, SO FULLY PACKED...."

 "...and easy on the draw."  This was a slogan for Lucky Strike cigarettes in 1944.  Today this slogan would never pass....not even close to political correctness, even though we all know it refers to a pack of cigarettes and the cigarettes themselves....I guess.

Though the slogan precedes my earliest childhood, I did hear it from time to time and couldn't help posting this photo of this girl's backside.

If you want to read more about this slogan, just CLICK RIGHT HERE.

THEME DAY - TRANSPORTATION

 

The first of the month on CITY DAILY PHOTO is THEME DAY! This month it's transportation.

I live in Belgrade, Serbia, a large cosmopolitan city. Years ago I lived in Paris. In both places my preferred means of transportation was/is by SHANKS' MARE, in other words with my own feet. 

I walk for the enjoyment of walking and photographing, but honestly in and around the city center,  reaching one's destination is often much faster by foot.

My foot is the one in the purple sandal. The others belong to two former CDP bloggers in New York City.

See other interpretations of 'transportation' on CITY DAILY PHOTO THEME DAY.