Tuesday 30 November 2010

If on a Winter's Morning
a Traveler looks up


Looking Up
around 8:30 this morning

on my way
to the metro station

Thank heaven
I had left early,
otherwise
I would have been late,
again.
Too much
to see
along
my path ....

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Images and Text
Copyright by Merisi


15 comments:

  1. Das Wetter ist ein Traum und deine Fotos geben das wieder!

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  2. Wonderful sky, I too love looking up~

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  3. And in the third picture the bird too is looking over his winter world...

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  4. Blue skies...
    Nuttin' but blue skies do I see...
    Doodly..doodly..do..

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  5. You have such a good eye, Merisi, whether it's trained on the skies or the ground--always something of interest! Magnificent skies!

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  6. Merisi, I agree with you about allowing time along the way, any way, any day.

    xo

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  7. Thank you for leaving early and taking time to share your world with us! Such beautiful skies!

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  8. Gorgeous sky--and I love that book of Calvino's! Thank you.

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  9. Danke, Svet! :-)

    Charles Gramlich :-)

    Mary Howell Cromer,
    I love what you are seeing!

    Margaret Benbow,
    it seems as if each of Vienna's trees hosts a bird guardian!

    Paris Breakfast,
    good thing I also took a long walk at lunchtime, this morning it is snowing, again.

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  10. Amber,
    it was so cold I was still feeling it, hours after my walk.
    My dog started shivering the moment I carried him out the door this morning.

    A Brush with Color,
    Sue, at times I think I am suffering from some form of obsession, it can be quite inconvenient not being able to let things be, without capturing them. ;-)

    Frances,
    I remember Ann Landers, something about the journey being the one to enjoy (a Bob Hastings quote comparing life to a train ride, or such).

    Vicki Lane,
    you are welcome!
    It is wonderful to know that besides myself there will be people like you who enjoy what I do.

    ds,
    I lost that book (somehow, five years after the "big move", I still discover the one or other of beloved books missing on my shelves - somehow, mysteriously, always dearly beloved ones). On my next trip to Italy, I shall buy a new copy (for you readers, the book we are talking about is Italo Calvino's "Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore", "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler").

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  11. A beautiful Rook in the bottom picture!

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  12. Maalie,
    thank you,
    I had been wondering which one it was. We have way too many birds here, I never know whether it's a rook or a raven or whatever. ;-)

    Btw. how can you identify a bird from so far away?

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  13. Merisi, it has the right 'shape' for a rook. I think that even at that range it would be possible to discern the two-tone of a Hooded Crow.

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