MONDAY MURALS---loong mural

 Took this with my little Minox Mini and the quality isn't so great because of lack of lighting. I think this is supposed to  be a mural of Belgrade, but I am not sure what the spired church on the far right is...

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MARCH IS BUSTIN' OUT ALL OVER

 Wait....that should be "June is bustin' out all over," as goes the song from Rogers and Hammerstein's 1945 musical Carousel. Be that as it may, the blossoms beside St. mark's cathedral impart beauty to an otherwise gloomy series of days. It is still cold, wet, and cloudy.

Personally, I don't care if it stays that way until August, if only this virus would go away....

PAVLE STILL SITTING ON AIR

 I've shown you this statue before last December and explained the story behind it. That last post wasn't such a clear photo, and this one is more colorful and clearer. Note that the tram was a present from Switzerland....in 2015. There are spiffy new ones now, too...not just these oldies. 

SORT OF SYMMETRY

 Today, like yesterday, was a miserable day. Today so far is worse. Started out ok, then it got really cold, rained a little. I literally just made it back from a dog walk when the sky broke and rainy slush poured down.

So, with this weather and not in a great mood, I snapped this photo out my back window. Not a beautiful view, but suits the weather at the moment.

COME LIVE AT THE US EMBASSY

 These are the buildings (foreground, not the higher-risers in the back) of the former US Embassy in Belgrade. Years back a stipulation came into vigor that US embassies have to be a certain distance from the street, so its present location is much farther away and set back....surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall. Little chance of getting a photo of that.  I tried to find a photo online, but they are non-existent or else blurred out.  Sign of the times, maybe, but most other major embassies I googled have photos.

Anyway, now the old embassy is a luxury apartment building...

ALIEN ATTACK

 Maybe I should have saved this for April 1st Theme Day. But I am running out of photos...

LAST SUNSET BEFORE HOME...

Last sunset from our stay at Mount Pancic in the Kopaonik Mountain range. See other skies on SKYWATCH

LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG

...even on the slopes. Spotted on a recent getaway from Belgrade.

KOPAONIK MOUNTAIN RANGE

Yesterday I wrote we are currently at Pancic Peak of the Kopaonik Mountain Range (2017 meters). Here is a view of part of the Kopaonik Range from where we are. We have snow, of course.

Green Stomatolite?

Here I am skiing (well, not me, but friends) at Pancic Peak in the Kopaonik Mountain Range here in Serbia. This is a popular resort and we are avoiding crowds, restaaurants (yes, they're open....) and rented a house on the outskirts. My days are spent walking my dog and theirs and enjoying the scenery. I am not a rock hound, but do like to pick up pretty ones, like the one in the photo. A friend who is a rock nut tells me that it is some sort of stromatolite abd could be around 2 billion years old. Makes me feel young. Anyone know for sure what it is?

SKYWATCH--light play in new belgrade

 

Looking across the river from Kalemegdan Park again toward New Belgrade.  I liked the atmosphere and the lights.

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