Looking Upon a Sunday afternoon
in early April
While waitingto meet friends,
I decided to takea walk around the block
This being Vienna,I heard a silver spoon
against a porcelain cup
Coffee being savouredon a terrace
under those arches
behind the magnolia
in the early April sun
Photographed
3 April 2011
in the 18th District
Images and Text
© by Merisi
Shadow,
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I can't believe more than two weeks have past since.
Vienna is one sea of spring green in any shade imaginable. This morning, I took a few pictures from my window, I stopped counting at ten different greens.
The weather has turned from spring to almost early summer. The lilacas are blooming, the tulips are fading fast in the warmth of the noon sun.
I ache to visit Vienna, moreso with each blog you post! Thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures, Merisi :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Catherine,
ReplyDeleteit is a pleasure sharing what I manage to capture.
I hope you get to Vienna soon!
It is getting too summery already. It is my youngest's birthday and I was preparing a chicken pot pie for tonight's dinner (a welcome change from sitting a the desk, I might add) and the kitchen was unpleasantly hot.
April 15th was much cooler and grayer, but I still loved it. I was so happy to be in Vienna.
ReplyDeleteI love magnolia flowers.
Merisi, I've treated myself to seeing Viennese springtime while having my morning coffee. I laughed at your mention of the sounds in the air...silver spoons against porcelain cups, perhaps mingling with some birdsong?
ReplyDeleteBest wishes to you, and happy birthday to your youngest.
I heard a silver spoon
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Being read on the BBC about the Ephrussi family in Vienna - The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal.
The shadows on the buildings are very cool.
ReplyDeleteZosia,
ReplyDeleteit has warmed up considerable since then!
Frances,
thank you! :-)
Paris Breakfasts,
the "silver spoon on a porcelain cup" are my words,
but the book you mentioned is on my shelves, waiting impatiently to be read! ;-)
Charles Gramlich,
I love them too! :-)
I have never been to Vienna, but your beautiful photographic documentary truly does beckon me - perhaps one day..!
ReplyDeletepour me a cup of sunshine too!
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking me out of my little office for a few beautiful moments!
ReplyDeleteSo very pretty and delicate, and full of burgeoning life. It does me good to see these beautiful signs of spring: today we were treated to snow mixed with rain, ice pellets, and freezing rain. I feel in these circumstances that something stronger than a cup of coffee is required!
ReplyDeletehere comes the spring!
ReplyDeletelovely, as usually <3
Such lovely flowers, Merisi. When Spring arrives, it does sosplendidly!
ReplyDeleteLovely shots! Wishing you and yours the happiest of Easter holidays!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I especially like the second image with the gates and shadows.
ReplyDeleteI love magnolias !!!
ReplyDeleteThey bloomed everywhere around here and so early as well!
Marie-Noëlle
lovely, lovely, Merisi!
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ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! Those shadows on the wall!
ReplyDeleteAbsolute perfection. <3 I love these everyday scenes of beauty you post best of all! (Aside from the Kaffeehäuser, of course!)
ReplyDeleteAN IDEA!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could have a banner rotation?
Fork over Strudel
Spoon over glass
Bridge over troubled water..
It felt like SUMMER yesterday in Paris :(
ReplyDeleteI'm ready for FALL!
I love the light, and the pink, white and cream colors in your images.
ReplyDeleteSo fresh and nice.
Wonderful composition on all photos.
ReplyDeletelooks beautiful Hope you are doing well !! Have a great week!!
ReplyDeleteSomething about Spring.......
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful pictures and poems!
ReplyDeleteSpring is very late this year, fortunately there are the photographs of last years .
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