WEEKEND REFLECTION--waiter descending

Still sipping my coffee with my friend at Hotel Moskva.  I am incorrigible with camera in hand. This is a reflection of the window through which I shot last Monday's photo, and it shows a waiter descending the spiral staircase to the cafe's upper level.

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Daily Haiku

In the netherworld

Of shadows and deception 

How can we find truth?

SKYWATCH--symmetry at night

I showed you this building on September 30th, and now you see it at night, with a little dose of my Peeping Tom inclination.

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Daily Haiku

Not want to be seen?

Discourage those Peeping Toms 

And pull the curtains 

Neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night....

'Neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night' is the U.S. Postal creed. Not sure if the 'rain or sleet' would deter these avid chess players from finishing a match, but the dark doesn't seem to bother them.

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Silently they sit

Contemplating their next move

Hoping for checkmate 

ABC WEDNESDAY--"N" is for "Nose"

While I was walking near the Turkish Embassy with my former student from Turkey a week or so ago, this dog poked its nose through the gate....

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Behind iron gate

Locked in with familiar scents

Sniffing desperately

 

When you gotta go....

Not an advertisement (wouldn't be a very good one) for Aperol, but an unfortunate juxtaposition.

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Wise Confucius say:

He who consumes drink

Knows where bathroom is 

From across the street at 1000mm...

Across the busy street from Hotel Moskva, where I was having a birthday (hers, not mine) coffee with a friend, lies McDonald's.....one of the (I believe) 5 or so here.  Using my little Nikon P510 at its maximum zoom of an equivalent of 1000 I took this photo. I kind of like how it turned out.  Not bad for 'in the dark'.

Daily Haiku

Lurking across the street

Sitting with camera poised

Clicking unnoticed

SUNDAY BRIDGES--again and again

Probably like many cities, Belgrade's bridges are numbered and to contribute to a meme like Louis La Vache's SUNDAY BRIDGES takes a bit of imagination.  Belgrade's most visible bridge is the Bridge Over Ada, which looms here, appearing quite close to the lamp post in Kalemegdan Park, but it isn't.

I should do a series like Bob Crowe's Arch Series!

Daily Haiku

Do not trust your eyes

For their will often deceive

Hearts often do, too 

WEEKEND REFLECTION--Take-out wine!

Take-out coffee and sodas I've heard of, but not take-out wine.  This shop, which has an excellent assortment of wines, various hams, cheeses, and sausages, also offers take-out glasses of wine. It's served  in a paper cup....albeit with a stem!  Didn't have any, but Alexandar, the young man who works there, was all too happy to oblige me with a photo.

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Daily Haiku

Have you ever heard

There's nothing new under the sun?

Try some take-out wine!  

SKYWATCH--just another sunset

Not much to say about this one....just another sunset seen from Kalemegdan.  The twin-towered building stands right along the highway that leads west to the airport.

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A hushed silence falls

Along with the setting sun

Burning red and orange

Meet the Gourds

"Meet the Fockers", "Meet the Flintstones", and now it's time to "Meet the Gourds"!

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Gourds dried and hollow

Old, fragile, but can still be

Pleasing to the eye

 

ABC WEDNESDAY "M" is for "Moving on"

Meet Mr. Djordje Stefanovic, whose little bookbinder's shop appears on the left of the bottom photo.  The shop has been in his family for over sixty years, but now, sadly, there's no one in his family who's interested in carrying on the trade.  I've come to him several times to have books rebound, the last of which was my son's favorite (and now little Mila's; I've ordered one for my grandson, Luka), Dr. Seuss's Old Hat, New Hat, which was showing the signs of much love from my son.

Djordje's going to retire after the first of the year....  I wish him well, and now don't know where I'll go....

See other M's on Mrs. Nesbitt's ABC WEDNESDAY.

Daily Haiku

   We turn life's pages

Like those in the books we love

Until we reach the end