I'm back home from the sepulchral architecture tour in Bellu Cemetery, Bucharest, the national pantheon of Romania

Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter on Bucharest's sky, photographed with my iPhone, yesterday at 8pm.

Three winter solstice cats enduring today's minus temperatures in Bucharest, waiting patiently to be let back in..

Photo from today' thematic architectural tour in Bucharest "The Mature Neo-Romanian Style": Marmorosch Blank Bank

Photomontage with images from today's Historic Houses of Romania architectural tour- "Art Nouveau Bucharest"

From today's Historic Houses of Romania tour in Dorobanti, Bucharest: Neo-Romanian, Art Deco & Little Paris styles

A photomontage from my architectural photo-outing today in Bucharest: Neo-Romanian style details from the Aviatorilor and Dorobanti areas.

A collage of images from my architectural photo outing yesterday in the Cotroceni quarter of Bucharest- plenty of Neo-Romanian style elements there!

Week end photo-architecture outing in Bucharest: the mascaron of a derelict 1890s "Little Paris" (French c19th provincially interpreted architecture) style building.

From my week end architecture photo themed outing in Bucharest: Art Deco era architect name tablet (late 1930s).

Bucharest photo-architecture sample shot this week end: a glazed mid-1930s Art Deco veranda.

A sample from my architectural theme photos this week end in Bucharest: a spiral shaft Neo-Romanian style column (early 1930s).

Bucharest architecture photo outing this week end: a 1920s Neo-Romanian style gargoyle; looks similar with Chrysler building?

My photo-architecture outing samples this week end in Bucharest: early '30s Neo-Romanian style balcony & jardinieres

From this week end photo-architecture outing in Bucharest: an exquisite Art Deco column and frieze.

Images from my architectural outing in Bucharest this week end: a mid-1920s Neo-Romanian style window!

A less known, but absolutely stunning Neo-Romanian/ Art Nouveau edifice: the Buzau county courts, built in 1910s; SE Romania.

View of the remarkable 1903 Neo-Romanian/ Art Nouveau Buzau county hall in SE Romania- pic from my recent architectural history visit there!

Main façade of Buzau county town, Wallachia province in Romania, a 1903 Neo-Romanian/ Art Nouveau edifice

Detail from the Buzau county hall, in SE Romania, built in 1903, Neo-Romanian/ Art Nouveau style