WEEKEND REFLECTION---classic cookware updated

Metal enamel cookware, made in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, has been around for a long time. I still have an old red pot with white polka dots that reminds me of the old Yugoslavia....I saw one in a museum recently.


Metalac even has a Facebook page for those of you can read Serbian.

See other reflections on James' WEEKEND REFLECTION.

SKYWATCH--the path

Playing with my little MINOX camera, which I often carry with me in inclement weather.  The sun was slowly coming out, no one was around except me and my dog.

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A Taste of India...

Found these little dancing Ganeshes stenciled on a metal wall.

And guess where I'm going again on March 2nd?

ABC WEDNESDAY ' "B" is for "Bumbershoot"

A photo from my phone on a rainy day when I didn't take my big camera.

People like this make me feel guilty!  I always think I should do some sort of exercise rather than major walking, but I don't.

This man, in the rain and under his umbrella or bumbershoot, seems to be enjoying his exercise.  And he's been to the market, too.

BTW, BUMBERSHOOT is also an annual international music festival held in Seattle over Labor Day.

See other B's on ABC WEDNESDAY.

What once was and what will be....

This facade of this small pink building is charming, though probably not something most people want nowadays.  But it has so much more character than what seems to be going to take its place.

Back in the driver's seat

Not that I was ever out of the driver's seat.  My driver's license expired on January 8th, so I had to renew it. Not only that, but this is the year that I turn into what society deems 'an older person', so I had to have a physical to see if I'm fit to get behind the wheel. Mind you, there are some much younger people out there driving on the streets that would turn your hair white, but I digress.

I had to have my eyes and reflexes checked, and should have had an EKG, but the doctor asked, "Do you have any health problems?" and I said no, which is true, but still....  With the results in hand, along with a bundle of dinars and my old license (the pink one, which folds out in three sections), I headed to the motor vehicles department and turned it all in.  I now possess a state-of-the-art snazzy license with a photo that looks like I am asleep.

Set for five years...

Sunday Bridges--railroad station and the bridge behind

Here's Belgrade's main railway station" and Branko's Bridge behind it.

See other bridges at Louis La Vache's SUNDAY BRIDGES

REFLECTION WEEKEND--back-to-back walkers

Back-to-back walkers with me, once again, reflected in the glass window of what was once the Australian Embassy on Cika Ljubina Street.  The Embassy is still around, but in another location.

See other reflections on James' WEEKEND REFLECTION.

SKYWATCH--gray skies...

Gray skies and a pigeon.....

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The Victor

I've shown you this statue in Kalemegdan many times. Here he is again from behind, and he seems quite a bit closer to the building across the river (Usce Tower).  That's the perspective a long lens gives you!

ABC WEDNESDAY--"A" is for "art"

Sometimes Mother Nature tries her hand at abstracts, like the arrangement in this frozen puddle.

See other A's on ABC WEDNESDAY.