of the Augarten Palace
The chestnut tree-lined road, the palace with
the Viennese Porcelain Manufactury
all are well and good,
but not what you are lusting after
on a hot early summer's day?
back into the city,
but your senses are already being transported
back to the Late Miocene,
your brain busy deciphering the song
of the honey bees working the sage flowers.
you begin to understand why honey bees
refused to cross the Rocky Mountains
on their own!
I too, like the bees,
would have to be carried west by ship
- slaves to a honey craving New World -
preceding the Governator to California
by one hundred and fifty years!
to find the gate leading us
into the gardens,
to the world outside
our feet hurrying along
under the protective cover
of row upon row of trees
is offered
not only to bicycles,
as well!
invites to sit and
take off your shoes,
open the paper
and read about what you
do not miss,
here, in paradise!
Take a break from life!
to be the world's
greatest sluggard,
to the heights of art
where it deserves to be!
do the wandering,
sun-stroked
green infinity!
Photographed by Merisi during lunch hour
around Palais Augarten on Wednesday, May 20, 2009.
First published May 2009
Images and Text © Merisi
Sooo lovely and relaxing! Pure summer goodness!
ReplyDeleteAnd the bees are so much more useful than Arnold.
ReplyDeleteOMG!
ReplyDeleteLush
Lush
Lush
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Lovely gardens, lovely, posies, lovely pathways, lovely buildings, lovely people, makes for a lovely post~
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely place, Merisi! It was relaxing even just looking at photos of it. Thanks for sharing these delightful photos.
ReplyDeleteDreaming of a shady hammock...
ReplyDeleteThank you all for taking the time and leaving such kind comments! I appreciate them immensely, especially since I feel a bit wistful about the the whole blogging thing and, consequently, uninspired, treading in place, always the same old pictures, I say.
ReplyDeleteI have been to Vienna only once and remember quickly the lush green spaces everywhere. Your photos are lovely and whisk us away to beautiful places.
ReplyDeleteBises,
Genie
Thank you, Genie!
ReplyDeleteVienna has indeed an abundance of green spaces.
A wonderful wander! Your reposts are always welcome.
ReplyDeleteO M G!!!
ReplyDeleteit looks absolutely heavenly there..
so serene...
The GREENS! divine
All those green spaces is definitely one of the big plusses here in Vienna!
DeleteYou're making me very envious as our summer here, in and round Paris, is grim, grey and ... WET !!!
ReplyDelete- OR are we in autumn yet ?!? ... I just wonder !!!
Marie-Noëlle
Today, it is raining in Vienna. We had weeks of splendid summer day, so I don't complain.
DeleteWishing you many wonderful summer days,
Merisi
A wonderful wander! Love specially the chestnut tree-lined road!
ReplyDeleteYou made me smile following your camera in the park :) ! Am one of those to whom loafing and mind-wandering do not come easily . . . but could imagine myself in your footsteps . . . [Oh, beautiful Google image for Klimt's 150th today: also made me think of your posts!
ReplyDeleteThis has set me to dreaming...thanks for the journey!
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