Mt. Sargan

Old locomotive in Mokra Gora.

Walking on Mt. Sargan.

31 December 2009 on Mt. Sargan.

Mt. Sargan.

Mokra Gora

We spent the New Year at a railway station.

Happy New Year 2010!

The railway station Mokra Gora , turned into a hotel.

Mokra Gora is today a famous tourist resort.

Valjevo

A building in the old part of Valjevo - Tesnjar. Tesnjar was the commercial part of town in the old Turkish times, the "carsija".

A restaurant in Tesnjar, Valjevo.

A street in the newer part of Valjevo.

Valjevo's National Museum. The scene in the underground shows Serbian dukes Aleksa Nenadovic and Ilija Bircanin in Turkish jail in 1804 before decapitation.

December in the Streets of Vienna

A circus horse.

Life in the streets of Vienna.

Before Christmas in Vienna.

In the street in the center of Vienna.

Vienna in December

Hatter's stall.

Dolls.

Gayly coloured stuff ...

Brat-Kartoffel. Maroni.

Vienna in December

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukkah" and went to synagogue;

the atheists went to parties and drank.

People passing each other in the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukkah!"

or (to the atheists) "Look out for a wall!" (Dave Barry)

The First Snow-Fall

The snow had begun in the gloaming,

And busily all the night

Had been heaping field and highway

With a silence deep and white.

Every pine, and fir and hemlock

Wore ermine too dear for an earl,

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree

Was ridged inch deep with pearl. (James R. Lowell)