What to do on a rainy Day in ViennaMay Showers at Prince Eugene's Belvedere

A Route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel --


A Resonance of Emerald --
A Rush of Cochineal --


And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head --


The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning's Ride -


Poem by Emily Dickinson

Photographed on this morning
of 18 May 2013 between showers -
and imaginary mail delivery -
at Prince Eugene's Upper Belvedere
and the Belvedere's Alpine Garden
Images © by Merisi

Under the Viennese SunThe Goose Girl Fountain at Rahlstiege

Looking Up
Blue blue Viennese sky and
a scaffolded building at Mariahilfer Strasse
next to the Rahl Steps


The Goose Girl
guarding her geese in the
late afternoon sunshine


Goose Girl Fountain and
balustrade on top of the Rahl Steps


Leaving Mariahilfer Straße
walking across Babenbergerstraße


Gänsemädchenbrunnen
Goose Girl Fountain by Anton Paul Wagner
Rahlstiege at Mariahilfer Strasse
5th District (Mariahilf)

Photographed 15 May 2013
Images and Text © by Merisi

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Peanut Butter Chocolate BrowniesTriple-Layer from a Viennese Kitchen

Triple-Layer Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownies
Triple-Chocolate Fudge Brownies from Gourmet Magazine
Best-peanut-butter-you-can-find-layer
Soft Chocolate-Butter Icing from Julia's Child's "Reine de Saba" cake
© by Merisi
Recipes:
-> Gourmet Magazine's Triple-Chocolate Fudge Brownies
-> Peanut Butter Layer via Cookie Madness
-> "French Chef" episode with Julia Child making the Queen of Sheeba Chocolate Cake
I melt the chocolate on a plate in a 200°F oven, just below 100°C - simple and never burns the chocolate

Vienna Today

"A perfect day in May
and what's this guy doing
out in the sunshine?
Texting!"

Gänsemädchenbrunnen
Goose Girl Fountain by Anton Paul Wagner
Rahlstiege at Mariahilfer Strasse
5th District
Image and Text © by MerisiLink:
-> Goose Girl Fountain

Viennese Rooftop ViewsThe Museum of Natural History

Parapet Figures
line the roof of the Museum of Natural History.

Herodotus, the "Father of History",
is holding his hand out over the city.

The Parliament Building and City Hall
From the hills beyond, the vineyards of the 19th District,
and the trees of the Vienna Woods beckon.

The two belfries to the left,
beyond the Volksgarten's Rose Garden,
belong to Heinrich von Ferstel's Gothic Revival Votive Church
(Votivkirche), to the right the Burgtheater (Austrian National Theatre, formerly the Imperial Court Theatre),
sits opposite City Hall on Ringstrasse.

The Burgtheater
and the Volksgarten's Rose Garden.
The building in the background to the left
is the Main Building of the University of Vienna,
one of the oldest and largest universities in Europe.

The view here comprises the Ringstrasse at the bottom left, the Parliament Building and City Hall at the left margin of the picture, the Rose Garden and the Volksgarten in the center, and a corner of Heldenplatz to your right.

Turning to the right, past the Volksgarten, at the upper right, beyond the Chancellery at Ballhaus Platz, the roof and the belfry of the Minorite Church (Minoritenkirche) slide into view.

Heldenplatz
Heroes' Square
The Imperial Palace's (Hofburg) "Leopoldine Wing"
lines one side of the square.
Beyond the Hofburg,
the cupola of St. Peter's church,
and the tower of St.Stephen's Cathedral
are visible.

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Vienna Rooftop Views
The Museum of Natural History
Photographed May 11, 2008
with my little Sony Cybershot
Images and Text © by Merisi
R e p o s t

Victoria and DreimäderlhausUniversity and Mölkerbastei

Victoria
by sculptor Johann Silbernagel
Universitäts-Ring at Mölkerbastei


University of Vienna
View from Schreyvogelgasse at Mölkerbastei


View from Mölkerbastei
City Hall, Liebenberg Victoria, and University


Dreimäderl-Haus
House of the Three Girls
Built in the late 1700s
A painting of the Holy Trinity
decorates the medallion of the front façade


Photographed the morning of
3 May 2013


Liebenberg Memorial
This is a picture I took in May 2010:
In the left background is the Pasqualati-Haus -
where Beethoven lived for many years -
at Mölkerbastei, a remnant of the old city wall

Images and text © by Merisi

Dreimäderlhaus at MölkerbasteiBeethoven lived next Door

Dreimäderlhaus
"House of the Three Girls"
Mölkersteig 1


Easy Riders
With a Vespa
in front of
Ludwig Reiter's shoe store
Mölkersteig 1


Dreimäderlhaus
View of the façade on
Schreyvogelgasse 10


Dreimäderlhaus
Dreimäderlhaus and its neighbours
were built on remnants of
Vienna's Old City Wall


Beethoven lived two doors down,
in the Pasqualati House,
which towers over the
rather small Dreimäderlhaus

Mölker Bastei
The Dreimäderlhaus in the center,
the Pasqualatihaus behind it.
On the left, on the other side of the Ringstrasse,
the University of Vienna

Photographed 22 May 2010
Images and Text © by Merisi