Another use for old tires

Here you go. Instead of making a swing of painting them white and planting flowers inside, you can use them to keep 'a lid' on your haystack!

All you need is a tire and of course, a haystack....

Whooooo's taking my picture?

Whoooo's taking your photo? I am, of course, even if I have to  hold my camera up over the fence to do so.

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS--after a binge

Another cell phone photo...  An abandoned drinking fountain holds the remains of a drinking binge of another kind.

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SKYWATCH---peeking around....

The domes of Saint Marko's church are peeking around some high-rises, as seen from a friend's rooftop terrace the other evening.

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Alive and well.....

Took a day trip to the town of Kucevo, about a 2-hour drive to the southeast. Not much in Kucevo, but the surrounding area houses (is that the word....?) a number of caves, one of which I showed you last Saturday.

This fellow's shirt reads Union of Communists.  This was a hip shot, but even if he saw me, he didn't seem to care.

For those language lovers, the ".....sticarnica" on the awning would read "poslatnicarnica" (pastry shop) if I hadn't cropped the photo!

ABC WEDNESDAY=="H" is for "helpful"

There are many tourists in Belgrade.  Young people with backpacks and also large groups of tourists who do the 'Danube Tours', coming from farther up the river.  Those who can easily keep up with the tour guide do just that, but some others, like this man in the wheelchair, prefer to sightsee at their own pace.

This man had  been studying his map intently and I was about to go over to him, but the man  in the striped shirt beat me to it.

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Hello!

You just never know what you'll come across in Kalemegdan Park.  Last Friday I posted this big guy, who was contemplating munching on a gardener.  Now, the man in blue has come face-to-face with a dinosaur who would have made short work of him, once upon a time....assuming that humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time, which they didn't, unless you buy into this theory.

THEME DAY-Rust and Ruins-Cinema Balkan

The movie theater "Balkan", built between 1867 and 1870, was first used as a  hotel for a short while and even an opera house, and later hosted projections of the first movies between 1909 and 1911.  In 1912 it became a permanent movie theater.  I remember going there on a fairly regular basis, and I took my kids to see Disney's Fantasia there as well, a film that I had enjoyed as a child.

Though there has been much talk of its restoration, it's  been as shown above for many years now....sad.  The way things are going now, it's likely to eventually be turned into a shoe store or clothing store.....

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY--the cemetery gate

Yesterday I went to the cemetery to mark the one year of the death of a dear friend's son. Not an occasion to take my camera along, but I did have my cell phone.

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS--Ravnistarka Cave, Serbia

Two days ago my friend and I took a road trip to Kucevo, a town about 2 hours southeast of Belgrade.  Nearby there are several caves, one of which we 'explored'. Ravnistarka Cave is one of the larger caves in Serbia, measuring 501.5 meters; 589 meters with its adjoining tunnels.  It was discovered in 1980.  

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SKYWATCH--giant photobomber

The clock tower on Kalemegdan, photobombed by, I believe, an apatosaurus, but you paleontologist readers, please correct me.

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