Palace on the HillUpper Belvedere on a rainy Day

The Upper Belvedere Palace
View from the Lower Belvedere
Coldplay, "Rainy Day"

Photographed this afternoon
Images and Text © by Merisi

Une Invitation au VoyageMerisi's Postcards from Venice

Think, would it not be
Sweet to live with me
All alone, my child, my love?

See, their voyage past,
To their moorings fast,
On the still canals asleep

We should have a room
Never out of bloom:
Tables polished by the palm
Of the vanished hours
Should reflect rare flowers
In that amber-scented calm;
Ceilings richly wrought,
Mirrors deep as thought,
Walls with eastern splendor hung,
All should speak apart
To the homesick heart
In its own dear native tongue.
There, restraint and order bless
Luxury and voluptuousness.
Quoted from the poem "L'invitation au voyage"
by Charles Baudelaire, translation by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Click for the complete poem @ Poetry Dispatch!
Photographed in Venice, February 2012
Images © by Merisi

Rain & ShineVienna Yesterday

Rain & Shine
Metro Exit Musikverein

After the Rain
Künstlerhaus Wien
Karlsplatz

Photographed
26 February 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

Vienna in the AfternoonThree Hours in late February

Cottony Clouds
and the sphere of gilded leaves
on the roof of the Secession building

Home-made Strudel Dough
ready for the filling

Olive Tree
with black olives ripe
for the picking

A Slice of Apple Strudel
waiting for a cup of coffee

Mosaic Frieze
4th District
More ->click-> Apple Strudel
Photographed 24 February 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

Rising from the Mist: Venetian BlueMerisi's Postcards from Abroad

Rising from the Mist
Carnival mask and gondole
Riva degli Schiavoni
San Marco
Venice
Photographed 19 February 2012
© by Merisi

Vienna TodayA Hint of Spring in the Air

The Secession Building
Exhibition hall of the "Vienna Secession",
the venerable Union of AustrianArtists

"The Vienna Secession
was founded on 3 April 1897
by artists Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser,
Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich,
Max Kurzweil, and others." *

Link:
* Vienna Secession
@ Wikipedia
Photographed
24 February 2012
Images © by Merisi

Morning in VeniceMerisi's Postcards from Abroad

Keystone Head
with Venetian pigeons

Off to Work
along a Venetian canal

A Venetian Portal
Man-made and nature
enjoying a moment in the sun

Unidentified Bird
perching on a boat -
unlike other birds, it would sit still
and stare at me, daring me to take a picture

Morning in Cannaregio
Venice, Italy
Photographed Febbraio 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

Venice in the AfternoonMerisi's Postcards from Abroad

Yellow Boat
2:15 p.m.
Rio San Antonin
Ponte de la Comenda
Castello, Venice
Missing Venice!
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Image © by Merisi

Morning in VeniceMerisi's Postcards from Abroad

Ash Wednesday Morning
The party's over
Photographed in Venice
22 Febbraio 2012
Image © by Merisi

Venetian Carnival - Ritratti di DonneMerisi's Postcards from Venice

Photographed 21 Febbraio 2012
Venice Carnival
Images by © by Merisi

Venetian Carnival - Walking PalacesMerisi's Postcards from Venice

Doge's Palace and
Santa Maria della Salute
Carnival in Venice
Fat Tuesday
Palazzo del Doge
Photographed 21 Febbraio 2012
Image by © by Merisi

Venetian CarnivalMerisi's Postcards from Venice

The Magic Flute
Papagena and Papgeno
at the Doge's Palace
San Marco
Venice
Photographed 19 Febbraio 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

Venetian CarnivalMerisi's Postcards from Venice

Gilded Mask
Caffè Florian
San Marco
Venice

Taking a Break
Spring and Summer

Photographed
19 Febbraio 2012
San Marco
Venice
Link:
A Short History of Venetian Carnival Masks
Images and Text © by Merisi

Capriccio VenezianioMerisi's Postcards from Venice

Morning with Gondole
Venice, slowly rising out of the mist

Cappuccetto Rosso
Little Red Riding Hood
out of the wood!

Ladies in Waiting
Pretty and tired

Pipistrello
Live, but not alive, at San Marco

Eleven O'Clock
Time for a snack!

Yellow is for Cash
Quick stop

More Snack
Joie de vivre

Il Filosofo
Think tank

Caffè!
Un cappuccino
e una frittella Veneziana

Head over to Corey's "Tongue in Cheek"
for more Venetian fare!
Images and Text © by Merisi

Postcards from VeniceMerisi's Viennese Escapes

Il Telefonista
Il Commendatore? Mr. Scrooge?
I met him again, hours later,
and again today, hanging around
Caffè Florian, cell at his ear

Venice
beautiful as ever

Cornetti con Panna
A bakery bar in quartiere San Polo,
I had one years ago,
still remember the taste

Lady in Charge
holding forth at Caffè Florian

Photographed in Venice
17 Febbraio 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

Postcard from VeniceMask in Green and Gold

Today in Venice
Carnival mask at San Marco
Image © by Merisi

Postcards from VeniceMerisi's Viennese Escapes

Cappuccino with a View
Caffé bar "Al Todaro
San Marco 3

Smoke, no Mirror
Vaporetto Stop San Marcuola
Canale Grande

Everyday is Fat Thursday
during Carnevale season
Fritelle di Carnevale
17 Febbraio 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi
© by Merisi

Tulips on Valentine's DayA true Story

What really happened
Merisi was sipping
real Italian coffee -
right here in Vienna -

and sipping and looking
at the tulips
and the street beyond

when all of a sudden,
a blue truck drove by.
- The end -

*

Photographed 14 Febbraio 2012
at Bubbacco alimentari bar paninoteca
Ungargasse 55, 3rd District
Images and text © by Merisi
Links about
- Click on "blue" above for a song
- Click here for the lyrics ->
Azzurro, ...
Blue, the afternoon is too blue ...