Saturday 3 April 2010

Viennese Spring


"For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;

The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;

And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,

And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

Quoted from
"Atalanta in Calydon"
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
(1837–1909)

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Images photographed
this morning
at the Farmers' Market
Yppen Square
16th District
© by Merisi


13 comments:

  1. These are beautiful! Very cheerful.

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  2. Such surreal colors. Lovely though.

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  3. Thank you, Steph! :-)

    Charles,
    those flowers were sitting on the shady side of the square.

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  4. the perfect words for these photos. It is a joyful time, isn't it?

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  5. Glorious tulips! Happy Easter to you and yours, Merisi! xx

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  6. Och, it puts an ache in me hairt!

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  7. Lovely combination of images and words. And very cheerful. Buona Pasqua!

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  8. Tulips! The signal that Spring has sprung. Between your eye and your camera's ability to grab color.....these are just lovely!!
    Happy Spring, Merisi.......
    ~Allie

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  9. Lovely! Whoever invented these tulips (out there in the cosmos) must be full of joy!

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  10. Wow, I love seeing your photos. Beautiful!!

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  11. These are so gorgeous they make me want to weep.
    ... love Swinburne ...

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  12. Bold and delicate all at once ... Beautiful!

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  13. Thank you all,
    I hope you all had a good Easter Sunday!

    I bought some of those tulips: They are the ones in the glass blowl on my Easter Sunday breakfast table. The blossoms opened wide overnight. They are miniature tulips like I had never seen before. Truly gorgeous. Also the other tulips on my Easter table are from the Farmers' Market as are the white daffodils. These local flowers last so much longer than commercial ones.

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