CALESTHENICS WITH HIKING STICKS

Came across these ladies with their coach in what is referred to as Lower Kalemegdan Park, under the fortress that you can see here.

Participants use their hiking sticks as part of their routine. Not a bad idea...

WATCHING OVER THE BOTANICAL GAEDEN

 These two, with matching statues on the other side of the entrance, watch over Belgrade's Botanical Garden. Looks like they've been picking a bit, too.

MONDAY MURALS--talking, texting, and a strawberry

 Cafes here are now open, inside and out with the former having limited seating, but before that you just had to  grab a bench where you found one.

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY--ANGLES AND SHADOWS

 Just what the title says. I liked these angles and shadows on a house in Kovin, Serbia.

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS--belated bunnies

 Actually, the bunnies are not late. I did take this photo around Serbian Orthodox Easter on May 2, but just got around to posting it now.

See other reflections on James'  WEEKEND REFLECTIONS.

SKYWATCH--blue and rosy

 An evening sky over St. Mark's cathedral here in Belgrade.

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The Ice Cream Tree

 I think I may have made a similar post  before, but this chestnut tree in bloom was just too good to pass up. When I was little, my mother and I would call these trees 'ice cream cone trees.'

MARATHON'S A-COMIN'

 Normally the Belgrade Marathon is held sometime in April,  but this year it's been moved to June.  

Note: Even the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia didn't stop the marathon, which was held on April 17th of that year. In April 2020 it was cancelled because of COVID, but now it's back....

I see more and more people in raining. I love this guy's spiffy shoes.

MONDAY MURALS--Who is it?

Not a clue who this is, but it's a good mural.

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HAPPY EASTER AGAIN

 Today is Serbian Orthodox Easter. I colored eggs yesterday.  In the top photo in the egg cup is this year's first egg, always colored red, at least according to my husband's family.  Beside it lies last year's red egg, which according to tradition, should be buried. You may wonder how you can keep an egg all year. You can...it just dries up inside and when shaken, I can hear the thumpy-thump of the dried up yolk.

The second photo is just an awfully cute whimsical ceramic 'egg'. 

THEME DAY--EARTH, DIRT

Not the latest dirt here, but from about six years ago. This is me in the Deliblato Sands,  the largest sandy terrain in Europe, once part of a vast prehistoric desert, having originated from the withdrawal of the Pannonian Sea.

I still have the h at, pants, jacket, shoes, and purse, but sadly no longer my little black dog, Bibi, who is following. I don't have the camera either, having recently switched to mirrorless.  

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...

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