Monday 1 September 2014

Luminous September Days
Viennese Escapes


September
It seems these luminous days
will never end.


The city,
which was almost empty during August,
now is filling up again.


It is
being replenished.


The restaurants
are all reopening, the shops.


People are coming back
from the country, the sea,


from trips on roads
all jammmed with cars.


Quoted from James Salter's novel
"A Sport and a Pastime"
Images © Merisi

I.M. my sister Elisabeth
Photographed 31 August 2008
at Esplanade-Café Zauner
Bad Ischl, Upper Austria
Salzkammergut Lake District

14 comments:

  1. I love the word picture you developed with Luminous September. Beautiful.

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  2. I do agree with photowannabe, wonderful word picture, lovely captures and a great greeting for September. Have a beautiful week, Merisi!

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  3. Interesting to read that the city is filling up, September always has the feeling of a new year for us too.

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  4. The statue in the first photo is so graceful and beautiful. Autumn is beginning to show her face all around the northern hemisphere these days...our only hint here so far is the shorter days...we are waiting...

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  5. Merisi,
    Your middle name is Luminous
    ! ! ! !

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  6. Charming images and text...
    LL

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  7. Your photos are a luminous reflection of Vienna's beauty. I would love to sit at that terrace table surrounded by red geraniums.

    On my only trip to Vienna (so far) I shared wonderful memories with my sister Nanette and there was much time spent at café tables plotting our next adventure. Glad to know that you have these lasting reminders too.

    Bises,
    Genie

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  8. Lovely series of photographs.

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  9. such lovely light .. clearly early fall is a good time to visit ..

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  10. Wie schön! Du hast wirklich ein tolles Licht eingefangen in allen Fotos!

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  11. Luminous is just the word! We are having such a day here today. The first picture of the beautiful statue --- ahhh!

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