We Have Run out of Clean Platesand Had to Raid Grandma's Pantry!

Was it
only yesterday

that a reader
commented

on David
Leibowitz's blog
about


"This new Paris trend


of serving
in canning jars"?


Well, look at these pictures -
my lunch today - Viennese chefs are also
happily recycling Grandma's canning jars,
giving them top billing at their tables!

Photographed at
Hollmann Salon
Heiligenkreuzerhof
Vienna

Images and Text © 2010 by Merisi

Im Kaffeehaus Café Hawelka

"... it must be said
that the Viennese coffeehouse

is a particular institution
which is not comparable to any other
in the world.

As a matter of fact,
it is a democratic club

to which admission
costs the small price
of a cup of coffee.

Upon payment of this mite
every guest can sit for hours on end,

discuss, write, play cards,
receive his mail, and,

above all, can go through
an unlimited number
of newspapers and magazines."

Café Hawelka
Dorotheergasse
Vienna

Images
© 2010 by Merisi

Quote:
"The World of Yesterday"
"Die Welt von Gestern.
Erinnerungen eines Europäers"
by Stefan Zweig
© Viking Press 1943
The University of Nebraska Press

Summer in the City: Midsummer Afternoon in Vienna

Midsummer Afternoon
Sunday
27 June 2010


Photographed
© by Merisi

Café DiglasMy Favorite Kaffeehaus

Café Diglas
Wollzeile

Photographed
Wednesday evening,
with the Golden Hour's light
flooding in through
tall windows and
bathing the interior
in its glow

Café Diglas
is my favorite
Kaffeehaus

Smokefree,
great coffee,
fantastic food,
what more could one
wish for?
Grumpy waiters?
Oh well,
they'd have to hire actors
to perform that feat,
Diglas waiters
have friendliness in their genes,
they couldn't be grumpy
even if they wanted to!

What more
could one wish for?
Better pictures,
for once,
to really do this jewel justice,
but then, who am I
to reveal all its glory
when you can go there
and see for yourself?

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Images and Text
© by Merisi

Café DiglasMy Favorite Kaffeehaus

Café Diglas
Wollzeile

Photographed
Wednesday evening,
with the Golden Hour's light
flooding in through
tall windows and
bathing the interior
in its glow

Café Diglas
is my favorite
Kaffeehaus

Smokefree,
great coffee,
fantastic food,
what more could one
wish for?
Grumpy waiters?
Oh well,
they'd have to hire actors
to perform that feat,
Diglas waiters
have friendliness in their genes,
they couldn't be grumpy
even if they wanted to!

What more
could one wish for?
Better pictures,
for once,
to really do this jewel justice,
but then, who am I
to reveal all its glory
when you can go there
and see for yourself?

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Images and Text
© by Merisi

You didn't thinkthat a Viennese coachman is stuck in the past,did you?

Viennese Coachman
Three-piece silk suit,
Aviator-sunglasses, iPod
and designer stubble
Any questions?


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Photographed
today at 4.57pm
at St. Stephen's Square
© by Merisi


Click!
The Third Man

Coffee And Roses

Morning Rose
Volksgarten
11 Mai 2010

Espresso, Anyone?
Café Diglas
Wollzeile

Morning Walk
Durchhaus
Passage Way
Michaelerplatz to
Habsburgergasse

Chestnut Flower
Volksgarten

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Images
© by Merisi

Have I Had A Dream?

"I have had a dream

past

the wit of man

to say

what dream it was."

No, this encounter
did not take place
in the realm of Fairyland,
but in Schönbrunn Park
in the shade of
a linden tree lined path

The gentlemen were there -
in period uniforms -
to help celebrate the opening
of an exhibition to commemorate
the bicentennial of the wedding of
the French Emperor Napoleon
to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria

Link -> Exhibition "The Wedding of Napoleon"

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The quote "I have had a dream"
is of course Bottom's from
Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream"

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Photographed
21 June 2010
© 2010 by Merisi

Monday Morning

Monday Morning

curtains up

sleepy head

off to work
we go!

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Locations:
Griechengasse
Habsburgergasse
Chanel Kohlmarkt
Schönlaterngasse
Photographed
© 2010 by Merisi

Morning in the City

Viennese Moments
captured in
the First, Third and
Seventh District
13 June 2010
© 2010 by Merisi

Sometimes I Dream In Italian Postcards From Rome

Bernini's Triton Fountain
Piazza Barberini
Rome

"The muscular figure,

squatting so comfortably
on his shell,

could blow
through his conch

a jet only two inches high,
the pressure was so feeble,

and water fell back over his head,
down his stone locks
and along the grove of his powerful spine,
leaving a glistening dark green stain."

"... he was beautiful in morning sunlight,
and so were the four dolphins
that supported the wavy-edged shell
on which he sat."

Quoted from
Ian McEwan's novel
"Atonement"

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Images photographed
in September 2009
© by Merisi