Thursday 20 September 2007

Morning Walk Under the Sheltering Sky










Morning Walk
13th District (Hietzing)

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14 comments:

  1. piccola lezione di inglese ... perdona la mia ignoranza. ma "shelter" non significa "rifugio / riparo" ? non capisco appieno il titolo, forse
    "camminata nmattutina sotto un cielo che da rifugio (riparo)" ?
    Grazie, signora maestra !!!
    PS-1 : va sul blog, c'è una novità !!!
    PS-2 : ricordati che mi devi una mail ;^)))))) ?

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  2. Oh yes, goat cheese! Or some kind of fresh cow cheese, mmmm. I'll keep that in mind next time, but then it's also nice on toasted white bread ;)

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  3. Luc:
    Your translation is correct.
    I was referring to Paul Bowle's novel "The Sheltering Sky", thinking of this passage:
    "Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless."
    (Bernardo Bertolucci has brought it to the big screen, with John Malkovich and Debra Winger, filmed under the wide sheltering sky of Saharan Africa, with incredibly beautiful scenes of the red desert landscape under the blue sky.)

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  4. Tea:
    You are right, one can't do wrong with great ingredients. :-)

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  5. Those sunflowers look so HUGE! Mine are not blooming yet and now the first frost has come.....

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  6. IT IS INDIAN SUMMER IN VIENNA ???

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  7. I was going to say, doesn't look too much like fall there yet....

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  8. BRITT-ARNHILD:
    That's so sad, the first frost already! Ghastly awful. :-(
    When you scroll back a week or so, you will see that the sunflowers in the fields here are almost ready to be harvested. The ones in the photo here were taken in a private garden I walked by with my dog, very close-up, they aren't as huge as they look. ;-)

    Mélanie:
    Yes, it's already Indian Summer here. A month earlier than I am used to from my old home in Washington. :-(

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  9. Beautiful flowers to remind us of summer. Mine are all fading fast now and evenings are getting colder

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  10. Hello, Merisi!
    Very nice fhotos.
    Thank you

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  11. nice to see the sunflowers there, too :) When I lived in Kansas (the Sunflower State), there was a large field of them I used to drive past when going out of town to my father's house. Beautiful sea of yellow in the late summer, esp when set against a field of deep red milo.

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  12. oooh sunflowers! I love them! :-D

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  13. Beautiful flowers Merisi. I am still thinking about your words on "Sheltering sky" !!

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  14. It looks so warm and sunny - it is overcast, drizzly and COLD here - I had to turn the heat on today...

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