SKYWATCH--three planes and a sunset

Thanks again to my friend Jasmina for this shot off of her rooftop terrace. I actually had my back to this view, and she noticed the planes' trails.  From this terrace is where I took last Friday's shot.

See other skies on SKYWATCH.

No white after Labor Day

"No white after Labor Day," my mother used to say when I was  growing up in the US. I think she meant shoes, of course, but white pants might have fallen into that category, too. No matter, since here in Belgrade Labor Day is May 30th, not September 1st.

Anyway, the two girls in the foreground have definitely abandoned summer wear....  I see fur, leopard skin, and snakeskin....all fake, for sure, but environmentalists shouldn't have an issue with that.

ABC WEDNESDAY "I" is for "intruder"

It looked like rain the other day, so I headed out with my little Nikon P510 and decided to practice some macros shots. (No rain came.)  I was so intent on shooting these blooms that it was only when I returned  home that I found the intruder, immortalized.  (I'm very pleased with this camera's capabilities, though it isn't fast enough for 'gotta get it right now' shots.)

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

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.

See other reflections on James' WEEKEND REFLECTIONS.

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.

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

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.....

Check out other interpretations of this theme day at THEME DAY.