Learning to Fly

I saw a baby bird learning to fly today...about 50 ft up, back and forth between the tops of a couple of poplar trees. I thought "that's not very graceful" and a moment later I thought "well...the baby bird is flying....and I'm not" ...sort of puts it in perspective

Look Ma...No Hands!

Without benefit of my computer, or photoshop...taken a few nights back when Elesa and I were walking near Šehidsko Mezarje Kovači (Martyr's Memorial Cemetery Kovači) up in the Vratnik section of Sarajevo.

Just re-sized from my "communicator" I'm beaming these up...


Man Under Streetlight - Kovači, Vratnik, Sarajevo



Cobblestones - Vratnik, Sarajevo

Time to Go

We're busy packing out and all the other fun stuff associated with a long distance move....you won't see much from me for the next couple of months. My computer will be gone Tuesday and I don't know when I'll see it next. I'm pondering getting a bigger & faster one as this one is 7 years old with only 768 MB of RAM...

Clock - St Stephen's Cathedral, Zagreb

Shelby Graduates!

Congratulations to Shelby and all the graduates...QSI Sarajevo's largest graduating class ever, 4....

Shelby Receives Her Diploma

Finished My Plitvice Photos

Not that I've caught up with all my photos, but I have finished the photos from our visit to Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia. I've also put a link to some individual slide shows for my various wanderings on the sidebar of the blog. I'll add more to that over time.

The Plitvice slide show can be found HERE (or on the sidebar)

The Path - Nacionalni Park Plitvička Jezera, Hrvatska

Jeff Doesn't Chase Firetrucks and Ambulances...

...they come to him.

On my way into the apartment this evening, a firetruck came racing at me (the wrong way on our one way street). I took these from our patio balcony.

Reflections of the Flames in the Window of a Nearby Building



Flames Come Through the Roof

Mirogoj Cemetery - Zagreb, Croatia

The city cemetery in Zagreb (Gradska Groblja, Zagreb), Mirogoj is possibly the most fascinating and peaceful cemetery I've ever visited...and I've visited a lot of them! It is basically an outdoor sculpture garden. It was a cold (for late May) gloomy and misty late afternoon, but the birds were singing their hearts out. Outside of the birds, it was extremely quiet. I took over 100 photos and I barely saw 10% of the cemetery.

The Vine Covered Arcades - Mirogoj, Zagreb




Angel - Mirogoj, Zagreb




The Miletić Tomb, Rudolf Valdec's Angel of Death - Mirogoj, Zagreb




"Mourning" The Matko Family Grave - Mirogoj, Zagreb

The Roman Bridge

I continue to fall further and further behind with processing my photos. Here's a snapshot I took last weekend when Elesa and I took Sophie and Maya to Vrelo Bosna to let them run around a bit. The "Roman Bridge" (Rimski Most) is really Ottoman dating from the 16th century. It is the symbolic western edge of Sarajevo.

Roman Bridge - Sarajevo, Bosnia