It's that time of year again....

...when toy stores will do just about anything to lure kids inside. Not sure how effective this is for the kids (it must be...), but it sure worked on me.  This dinosaur, whose head looks like that of a tyrannosaurus, but whose body resembled that of a raptor, was roaring and moving in a very life-like manner.  A little boy and his mother emerged from a nearby underground passage way, and he let out a scream and headed back down.

So much for the visit to the toy store.

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Did they ever think

One day they'd be just fossils

Same is true for us

SKYWATCH--through the branches of winter

The steeple on Belgrade's main church, seen through nearly bare branches on a cold day....

See other skies on SKYWATCH.

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Things we could not see

Are often revealed to us

Imperceptibly

  

Super Hero

Super Hero is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this dog near the military museum in Kalemegdan Park.  On the other hand, he could be an escapee from a federal penitentiary....

 

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 Florescent orange

Shade not found in nature

My eyes wince in pain

ABC WEDNESDAY "V" is for "Voluminous"

This lady (I had believed her to be a man) caught my eye as she wandered up a street downtown in this voluminous coat.  She appeared headless....and handless, too.

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

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Some work with their heads

While others work with their hands

This poor soul can't work...  

Toppled

These are tops of perhaps a stone wall or column pieces. The Mosque in Belgrade, that I showed you in this post several years ago, has been renovated, but these were always lying in the same place and haven't been moved.

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Once tall, now toppled

No longer what they once were

But now a still life

'twas cold....

Cold and icy was what it was the other day. I positively intensely dislike snow and ice in the city. In the country, if I were sitting in a nice warm kitchen looking out the window at all the white, that's another story.

But these leaves and berries and snow did provide me with a pretty still life, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

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Winter snow and ice

Appeals to some; not to me

Waiting for the melt

  

Fading before their peak....

These are some lilies that remained, until I tossed them this morning, from my Thanksgiving celebration last Sunday.  All the others were open or did open, but these never seemed to make it.

Always sorry to see flowers fade without really blooming.

Have a good weekend. No posts until Monday.

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 Don't let days go by

Not reaching your potential

Time waits for no one

Baby, it's cold outside.

Still not on the ball with new photos, though this one is. I've got some kind of bug that's been keeping me down, but still have to walk the dog.

Awfully cold here....look at all that frost, and this was not taken at the crack of dawn.

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With his brush Jack Frost

Paints the ordinary new

Delighting our eyes 

ABC WEDNESDAY "U" is for "undercover"

That's the only U I could think of....sorry; still overwhelmed with mother-related issues.

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

The Meditator

Another moment when I wished I'd had my big camera other than my substandard cell phone...

It was really cold, and this fellow stood in his stocking feet, face to the sun, for the entire 20 minutes (and perhaps more before and after!) I let Bibi run around on this hill in Kalemegdan.

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Facing the bright sun

My stocking feet touch the earth

The sun warms my soul



Winter lavender

Not lavender, the good-smelling kind, to be sure, but rather a decorative kale that graced my Thanksgiving Day table.

I'm still busy with mother-stuff; photos not up to par, but what to do?

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Fragrant lavender this is not

But rather decorative kale

Shares color not scent