"Bibi" in the USA!

It's summertime, and like many others, I'm on vacation. I'm currently in the US until late August, and will be posting photos from here. Sometimes I'll post photos that have something to do with Serbia, comparisons, contrasts, and such, and sometimes I'll just post what I find interesting!

My first US stop was New York City, and I was very pleased to meet up with Alexa from The Road is Mine and "Lily Hydrangea" from Long Island Daily Photo (see my sidebar for their links.) Lily hadn't met Alexa, and neither had met me, but somehow our blog auras led us to one another. Joined by my NYC friend Marianne (who's being coerced into starting Queens Daily Photo...), we hiked over the Brooklyn Bridge and along the Brooklyn Panorama.

In this photo you see our feet daintily poised on the bridge's planks. The foot with the bandaid belongs to Lily, the red nails are Alexa's, and the covered toes are mine.

Stay tuned for more photos from the Big Apple, then Pennsylvania, Seattle, and somewhere in California.

Theme Day--'Empty" and ABC Wednesday "X" is for 'xyloid'!

This future floating restaurant or cafe is pretty empty now, and I hope that it will be full when opened! I'm doing a double post today for ABC Wednesday's X and for Theme Day=Empty. "Xyloid" means "relating to wood."

More good stuff beginning tomorrow, as Bibi posts from the U.S., where she's visiting until August 18th.... Please continue to drop by to see how Bibi views her home turf.

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Roast pork!

Scroll back to see my 'roast meat' post on June 25th! Serbs are big, big meat eaters, and especially love roast meat. This pig on a skewer is (or rather was....) being roasted outside a restaurant. If you have a pig to roast, you can often pay a restaurant to roast it for you, since obviously city dwellers don't have the space to do this.

Zen in Zemun

A recent trip up a hill in Zemun yielded this 'Zen' shot. The pieces of bricks and concrete were placed there, and blend in nicely with the three different kinds of tile roofs in the background.

Crossing to Kalemegdan

An elderly man takes advantage of the early Sunday morning hours to safely cross from Knez Mihailova street to Kalemegdan Park. Notice the decorated manhole cover that I showed you close-up right here.

"Real Good for Free" Part II

The other day I showed you this musician playing another kind of instrument. Here we see a man with his grandson playing away, again not really for free, but in the hopes of earning a few dinars. I always thought learning to play the accordion must be really hard...

Skywatch Friday--Lookout below!

This is one of Belgrade's oldest department stores, but newly renovated. "Beogradjanka," as it is known, fell into disrepair during the latter socialist era when privatization came about. Now it's quite posh inside, and has had a facelift, too, including new panes of glass outside. About two weeks ago, one fell while it was being installed on the street that is on the left of this photo, but fortunately, no one was hurt.

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How about a little roast meat?

This fellow on a floating club restaurant on the Sava river was happily roasting a lamb, most probably for an afternoon dinner/celebration with his friends. Nice size lamb.

The fellow in the photo below works for one of the larger floating restaurants nearby. That is one big young cow he is roasting. And yes, the white pieces in the two tubs are peeled garlic to be used for salads, soups, and meat!

ABC Wednesday "W" is for "weather-worn wood"

Isn't this a great mish-mash of wood and a bit of rusty fence, too? This was taken in southern Serbia last year, when my husband and I visited a small village in search of someone selling honey. We found someone, and I waited in the car while my husband bought the honey. This was what was in front of me.

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You know what they say....

...about owners and their dogs looking alike. These two have the same color hair and the dog is wearing a plaid harness and color to match 'mommy's' shirt. And no, I do not have the same underbite as Bibi does!

Old and crumbling...

Passed by these stairs downtown the other day, then returned to have a closer look. They 'spoke to me,' but not in color. I think black and white is best here.