LEAVING LYON

 My trip to Lyon draws to a close today. I have enjoyed every minute of it. My friend Véronique has done her very best to fulfill my every wish! The above photo shows an andouillette with potatoes gratinées. There are several types of andouillette and are basically composed of pork innards. 

ARTIFICIAL STILL LIFE

 The friend I am visiting in Lyon has this arrangement of artificial fruit, all white. I liked it and am sharing it with you. 

TROMPE L'OEIL!

 In Lyon there are several buildings bearing fantastic trompe l'oeil paintings. Here is one, currently being touched up, hence the fence. There I am in the foreground. Really me, not a trompe l'oeil me! 

FROMAGE DE TÊTE

 France is know for many culinary delights, including cheeses. Above is fromage de tête, BUT surprise! It is NOT  a cheese and contains no dairy products. It is made from the head of a calf or a pig and set in aspic. Very tasty... Though I do have objections to its sources. 

Happy Passenger

 I am in Lyon! This fellow, apparently delighted by what he was reading, was traveling like me from St. Exupéry Airport to downtown Lyon. 

GARDOS TOWER

 I rather liked this image of the GARDOS TOWER seen through some very modern lights at a nearby cafe.

ANOTHER DOG

 

I was hurrying to my bus the other afternoon and almost missed this little fellow. I backtracked a bit and got him!  Got the bus, too....

A-1 DOG

 This street dog probably feels like an A-1 top dog with his own house and food bowls. Little does he know that A-1 is a mobile network operator.

WAITING FOR HER DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT

 This lady opted to wait outside the clinic in nicer weather. Not so much a nicer seat though!

DEATH TO FASCISM

 That's what the words in red mean. I don't think the cat wrote those words, but I am sure he agrees. He has a duplex, too; class.

QUINCES

 There is an eyeglass shop downtown that creates beautiful window displays. I cropped out the eyeglasses here to show these lovely quinces. Quinces are an ancient fruit (3,000-5,000 years old, and come from near the Caspian Sea in Iran. All that still doesn't make me a fan of whatever one makes of them; I've tried.  But they're great for photos.

REFLECTIONS IN A PUDDLE

 I have a new lens, a Viltrox 9mm 2.8. Took a test run the other day through raindrops and will do more today. Because it is such a wide angle, it lets you get really close to the subject with minimal distortion with 'flatter' subjects like this puddle. You can see that the camera focused on everything,  not just the reflections, so all is clear. I am happy with it so far.

JUST A LOVELY BLUE DOOR

 Just a lovely blue door in Zemun, near Belgrade. Not sure the amchors indicate the home belonged to a fisherman, but maybe. Zemun lies along the Danube.

NO FEAR OF HEIGHTS

 Defnitely not a job for me. I just wonder how much they get paid.

CLOSED--FOR GOOD

 This is the wreckage of a floating restaurant on the Danube near Zemun, which is just down the road from downtown Belgrade. I couldn't make out if there had been a fire or if it has fallen into ruin for some other reason. Been that way for quite a while. The city has been tidying up such places along the river, and I imagine this one hasn't many more days left.

SMOKIN' HOT

 Spotted in the community of Zemun yesterday. Smokin' hot red hair and she's smoking, too. When I first came here in 1977, many women dyed their hair this color. Not so many since.

SITTIN' HIGH

This eye-catching chair/stool awaited someone at my local outdoor market. A fish place with a little bar-type table you can see to the right.

ENJOYING A GLASS

This young woman was enjoying a glass of wine and so was I, with a friend the other night.
 

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AND HER DOG

Downtown.....

NO LONGER WANTED

 A bit sad. Upon closer inspection these flowers at an outdoor market didn't look so bad. 

REFLECTION

 A red neon sign with the restaurant's name shows its reflection on this table.

SUNSET

Went for a walk two nights ago and was rewarded by this stunning sky.

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CHIC IN THE BUS

Fashionable, though I'll never accept the major rips.

HAPPY (EVER AFTER?) IN THE MARKET PLACE

They sure LOOK happy!  No apologies to the BEATLES' SONG, Ob-la-di-ob-la-da since I'm pretty sure they'd approve of this photo.

CHSIRTIAN DROI

Ran across this fellow today while out shooting photos. I have a suspicion that this jacket is not a genuine Christian Dior.

What do you think? They got the address right though.

LEMON 'PICKLE'

Fall is definitely here and it's time for making preserves. I love 'pickle,' otherwise known in the West as chutney. Chutney in India is something quite different. This is a photo of the ingredients for my favorite 'pickle,' lemon pickle.  I have prepated about 10 jars (not all fruit is shown here for the photo!)
 

COMFORTING

 Of course this is a sneak shot of a couple in the bus the other evening. I wonder what the story is.

ETERNAL ASTERIX

 On the way to a restaurant the other day, I passed by these beautiful murals!  At first I was only going to use Asterix, but just couldn't leave out Obelix and Panoramix (Getafix in English).

WHEN HUNGER STRIKES

 Popcorn's good, any time, anywhere.

BELOW THE BRIDGE

 I took this while walking across the main bridge, commonly called Branko's Bridge, that links old Belgrade to New Belgrade across the Sava River. The sign reads 'Only love'.

OCTOBER THEME DAY--GLASS

Theme for October is Glass, and there's a lot of that on this building, plus a couple of reflections thrown in for good measure.

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