A rainy Morning in MayViennese Escapes: Vorarlberg

"Ging heut Morgen übers Feld"
I went this morning over the field,
Dew still hung on the grass;


The happy finch spoke to me:
"Hey you! Right? Good morning!


Hey, right, you,
Isn't it a lovely world, lovely world?

Photographed 24 May 2013
Images © by Merisi
Quoted from Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfarer"
Translation by J.C. Lozos
-> Ging heut Morgen übers Feld
Starts at 4:00" - sung by Frederica von Stade

As far West as you can go in AustriaSeeing the green Hills of Switzerland

In the Far West of Austria
The green hills of Switzerland from a train station in Vorarlberg

Photographed 23 May 2013 at 8:30 PM after a thunderstorm
For more images of Vorarlberg, click here -> Merisi's Vorarlberg
Image and Text © by Merisi

Viennese MomentsEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Polarstern
Polar Star Moment? In Vienna?
Where else?

Polar Star Rose
Gracing Vienna's Rose Garden
Since 1982!

La Grappa
Cappuccino
Aufhofstrasse

Simply Because
I love it.
Shell and small window.
Franciscan Church
Weihburggasse

The Salts of Life
Zum Schwarzen Kameel
The Night Kitchen

Artist's Atelier
Door sign in a Viennese
Pawlatschen Courtyard

Weine
Wine
Where?
I forgot.
Too much wine.

Yesterday's News
Newspapers bundled and tied
Ready for Recycling
Café Kandinsky

Le Muffin
Café Le Bol
Neuer Markt

Café Diglas
A smile worth a thousand words
Wollzeile

Hellmann Salon
Menue
Heiligenkreuzer Hof

Frisch gestrichen
Wet paint!

Foto
Reflection behind letters
Letters with reflection?
Pause. Reflect.
Push the shutter-release button.

No Letters. No Words.
Still, a sign of the times.
Autumn's here.
Schwedenplatz Metro Station
Five minutes from St. Stephen's Cathedral.

Photographed by Merisi
in September 2008
R e p o s t
Images and Text © by Merisi

Gnomes in Urban LandscapeViennese Gnoments in Time

I have been walking by this fellow
for several months now.
He's still turning his back to me. **


Country in an urban window


Inquiring about the little red-hatted fellow,
I was told, he wasn't quite ready yet.
And got presented with another Gartenzwerg.


Easily the prettiest window boxes
in the First District.
And not only for the potted peony.


The same windows, with last summer's bounty


Oranje Fan
Soccer Worldcup 2006


Griechengasse
Walking towards Fleischmarkt


Griechengasse towards Hafnersteig
Photo taken on the same spot
as the one above,
only this time with the back to Fleischmarkt:
To your left, Griechengasse continues,
with St. George's Church (ca. 1800);
ahead of you;
slightly to your right,
sloping towards the Donaukanal,
bégins Hafnersteig


Looking from Griechengasse, beyond Hafnersteig,
Franz-Josef-Kai and the Donaukanal,
to Leopoldstadt (2nd District),
i.e. the view, that the gentlemen
in the above photo have ahead of them

Photographed with my little Sony Cybershot
way back on 7 June 2007
R e p o s t
A New York times article pondering the
surprise appearance of the Common Garden Gnome at the revered Chelsea Flower Show prompted me to republish this six year old post.
Such sweet memories of my encounter with a great gentleman and his a bit naughty garden gnomes!
Links:
-> New York Times: Common Gnomes Pop Up at Rarefied Flower Show, to Horror of Many
-> From the BBC: The Quinn visit to the Chelsea Flower Show - Mum about the Gnomes?

Prince Eugene's BelvedereViews from the Upper Belvedere

Belvedere
A structure designed to command a view
In Italian "belvedere" means "beautiful view"


The Belvedere
Prince Eugene's Summer Residence
Looking over the Upper Palace's gardens
towards the Lower Belvedere Palace
and the city beyond -
in the center, the spire of St. Stephen's Cathedral


Photographed the morning
of 18 May 2013
Images and Text © by Merisi

Link to previous posts -> Views from the Belvedere