DRESSED FOR THE SEASON

 This lady, about to enjoy The Pause That Refreshes, is indeed dressed for the season/winter, but it actually hasn't been that cold in the past few days. 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Find your love...

 A bit of Valentine serendipity was sent to me yesterday.  I made a collage of these two people who seem to have not known each other to begin with. 

Ah, l'amour....

WONDERING....

 ...if I took his photo. I did.

ICY-COLD

 I love this shade of blue along with the purple. It was really freezing last night, and these colors made it feel even colder.

"AT GRANDPA'S"

 Walked down a street I haven't taken in ages and don't know how I did not see this before, but it appears as if this restaurant has been here for quite a while. Good ol' home-cooked Serbian cooking, and I imagine it is Grandma, not Grandpa, who does the cooking. But maybe I'm wrong....and yes, you can smoke there...

WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY

 Watching the world go by....and puffing away.

BAD HABIT

 I am probably going to offend some readers who are smokers, but I believe that even they know smoking does you no good.

BACK TO MY LITTLE MINOX DCC 5.1

 

During a trip to the US in 2012, I bought a tiny camera, a Mnox DCC 5.1, in the airplane. It intrigued me, and when all conditions are just right, it takes a fairly decent photo, sometimes with a retro look.  Rain over the last few days here, so I dug it out and shot a few photos at home. I've posted some before, and if you go to the search box here n my blog and type in 'Minox,' posts will come up.  The external features are purely for show,  Focuses at .5 meter, 1 meter, and  infinity.

You can read about this little camera RIGHT HERE, but at least on B&H Photo, it isn't available anymore.

APRIL BAR

 Photo of a texter at April Bar here in Belgrade. April seems far away....

ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN

Today's my birthday, and I share it and my native state with PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL, the Pennsylvania groundhog who according to legend and a bit of kindly forceful extraction, I imagine, emerges from his hibernation to see or not to see his shadow. If he sees it, six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see it, spring is on the way sooner than later. Not sure if that's valid for just Punxsutawney or elsewhere, but today here in Belgrade it's raining...and cloudy...no shadow!  Woo! 

THEME DAY FOR FEBRUARY--VIRTUE

 I believe I took this photo in Sarnath, India, but honestly I am not sure. In any case, it gives the Buddha's advice, and he was indeed virtuous.

See other interpretations of Virtue on THEME DAY.