Thursday 4 February 2010

Please Bear With Me: February Clearance Everything Must Go!


Shop Window
Fasching - Carnevale -
is in full swing here in Vienna.
I found this festively decorated window
cum reflections in the 9th District


Wiener Guglhupf
Diet size, in a snow globe
Couldn't throw that one
in the dustbin, could I?


ShipAccidents Happen!
A crowd bears with
the sorry victim
Galerie Ambiente

Teddy Bear Collection
Not for sale!
Enbiggiate* the scene by clicking,
but don't mess with the cockroach
!
Galerie Ambiente

Snow Dusted Park Benches
communing with the early morning sun
Stadtpark

Would You Please
lower the bar
so I could join you too?
Framed picture
Habsburgergasse

Vergine Cobble Stones
after a night's snowfall
It took me something like
123 exposures to get it right.
I had to post it at some point,
and if it was in a clearance post
. ;-)
Stadtpark

* enbiggiate:
As far as I am aware of,
we have to thank Steph, the "Incurable Insomniac"
for this Little Word Music. Dankeschön, Steph!

*

I hope you don't mind
this little Sammelsurium
of images that otherwise would have been left
on the virtual cutting room floor.

Images and Text
© 2010 by Merisi



23 comments:

  1. Thank you for your very wise decision not to consign these delights to any cutting room floor. Goodness! The idea that we would not have been granted a chance to see and remember these images is a bit alarming.

    It's hard to pick a favorite amongst them. The shop window with brilliant colors hanging against the subdued reflection. Teddybears at the accident scene, snowy ghosty cobblestones, and more.

    Thank you again, dear Merisi!

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  2. Those teddies look like they could tell some stories...well loved I think

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  3. like the snow on the cobblestones...they look like they have been dusted with confection sugar :)
    and the coffee on the railing...lovely too.
    well, everything wonderful!

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  4. Thanks for not keeping these hidden! Love the park benches!

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  5. I love the cake in the snowglobe and the cobblestones too.

    A friend of mine once lived in a storefront and after curtaining off the front window for privacy- she made a display of bears in the window. She would rearrange them every couple of days into new scenes. A man who passed by regularly started to leave notes for the bears and the bears began to answer his notes. And so began a love affair with a very happy ending.

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  6. oh Merisi, your eyes and your mind SEE so much!!


    l have just read your post over at Davids, and l CONGRATULATE you on your UNI studies....you clever thing....will you still blog?? l wonder!


    Saz xx

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  7. There was a time that I collected bears for my child-clients, but I stopped when another therapist was giving them away for her clients!
    Love these bears, collecting them is so addictive!
    Love the photo of the benches in the park too!

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  8. A wonderful post of odds and ends -- I wouldn't want to have missed any of them, especially the teddies. Especially the teddy bystanders at the accident.

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  9. The cobblestones with the snow look like the footprints of strange beasts and beings.

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  10. Absolutely delightful! I love the powdered cobble stones!

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  11. Beautiful pictures! I've always wanted to go to Vienna-it fascinates me. The store in the picture is so cute.

    xoxo

    Nisrine

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  12. Whee!!!!! Saved the best for last did you?

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  13. I love that last picture with the teacup and the skier. What a perfect outdoor tea experience.

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  14. I love the Guglhupf snowglobe!! We are awaiting what they are calling "Snowmageddon" here in DC, lots of snow forecasted for this weekend. And I thought I was getting off easy by spending the winter here instead of in Austria...

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  15. Great blog Merisi! I was in Vienna in 1987.. so it's been awhile. Nice to see the city again...... your photographs are so cheerful and spirited : ) Didn't know you celebrated Carnevale in Vienna... Have fun!

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  16. a stunning collection you have here!

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  17. Très beau !!! Love the bench picture, so romantic

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  18. Am I the only one creeped out by a bear with a huge, scary-looking bug in his crotch? The other two bears are like, "Dude, you are so not invited to this tea party until you get rid of your crotch bugs."

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  19. When enbiggened , the Teddies aren't quite what I thought they were. The cockroach is pretty scary. Oh my....
    I'm glad you didn't cut the park benches either. I love the whole composition. Great photos as always.
    Sue

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  20. Thank you all so very much for your comments!
    I had quite a chuckles at your remarks about the cockroach, among others. ;-)
    Sue, these are very old bears: What was it that you did not see when you enbiggiated the pictures?
    cheers,
    Merisi

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  21. Wow, love the cobble stones, and the park bench...ok, all of them!
    Thank you! I love checking in on your Vienna.

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  22. FAB bunch of pics!!!
    Though I don't like the scorpian about to stick the bear :(
    LOVE that poster!!!

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