I spy BambiPötzleinsdorfer Schlosspark

New Benchmark
In the still of the morning

Old Growth Trees
Bambi underneath
Click, don't shoot!

Trees and Meadows
Still Vienna, though

Photographed at Pötzleinsdorfer Park
19th District
Images and Text © by Merisi

May I tempt you?A perfect slice of Australian Pavlova in Vienna

Sweet Temptation from Down Under
Australia meets Vienna:
An expertly baked Pavlova meringue cake
with a whipped cream and berries topping,
served with a Großen Braunen,
a double espresso with a shot of milk
Served today at the Daniel Bakery
of the Daniel Design Hotel
Landstrasser Gürtel
3rd District
Images and Text © by Merisi

Feast with Roses

The time will come
When, with elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at the other's welcome,

And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
To itself, to the stranger who has loved you

All your life, whom you ignored
For another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

The photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott, "Love after Love"
Viennese Roses in Pink
Captured in the Volksgarten's Rose Garden in September 2008
Repost

Peonies by the BucketSaturday Farmers Market

Shades of Pink
Peonies at the Farmers Market
Saturday Farmers Market
Yppenplatz
16th District
Image © by Merisi

Coffee and PeoniesSaturday Farmers Market

Coffee & Peonies
Early morning at the
Farmers' Market

Photographed
at La Salvia
Saturday
5 June 2010
© by Merisi
Repost

Cupcake ManiaHave your Cupcake and eat it too

I am the King
Cupcakes rule!

Cupcakes run the World!
Everywhere I turn,

cupcakes, cupcakes,
cupcakes, and more cupcakes!

And some people not only look,
but eat them too!

What is your
favourite cupcake?
Images and Text © by Merisi
50mm

In the Quiet of the MorningEarly Bird taking a Break

Early Bird
beats the crowds
St. Michael's Gate
Hofburg Imperial Palace
Michaelerplatz
Photographed Sunday Morning
50mm lens
Images and Text © by Merisi

The Botanical Garden in MayA Dash along its Paths before the Rain

A View of the Upper Belevere Palace
from the Botanical Garden

In late May,
the garden shines

in all shades of green
imaginable,

spring flowers
give way to early summer blooms

and the potting shed
is once again covered
by the green leaves of wisteria

Photographed in the Botanical Garden
of the University of Vienna
Adjacent to the gardens of the Belvedere
and its Alpine Garden
Rennweg 14
3rd District
Images and Text © by Merisi

Coffee, anyone?The Spanish Riding School Café

In the quiet
of the morning

a cup of coffee
before watching the morning exercise
of the Lipizzan horses

Café in der Spanischen Hofreitschule
The Spanish Riding School Café
Visitor Center of the Spanish Riding School
Imperial Palace
Under the dome of St. Michael's Gate
Michaelerplatz

Images and Text © by Merisi

Sunday Morning in the CityViennese Moments

Three Blind Mice
Valentino Garavani's version, that is

Two White Horses
and a blue carriage

You'd be scared too
if you'd almost come under a coach!

Follow me?
Not!

I'd rather watch
a pastry fairy making apple strudel!
Images and Text © by Merisi

What you see and what you getViennese diversionary Tactics

A Camel Hair Overcoat
or a Livio de Marchi sculpture?

A Viennese Mélange
or an Italian Cappuccino?

A Dream within a Dream
or Café Orlando di Castello?

A storefront
or an all too clever diversionary tactic

to distract you from
that little Chocolate "ménage à trois"
I had with my coffee?

Photographed 2 April 2012
at Café Orlando di Castello
and Fütterergasse
Images and Text © by Merisi

On a Day like thisImagine ...

Lake Constance
Try to imagine:
grey sky, water the colour of lead,
rain, rain, and more rain.
What would you expect
from a luncheon on a boat?
Photographed on Lake Constance, Austria
Saturday, 12 May 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

A Viennese BreakfastCafè der Provinz

A
steeple

a
baroque
church

a
quiet
lane

potted
oleander

Sit
down

order
half a Belgian waffle
with maple sirup
and a sprinkle of
wildflower dust

sip
a caffèlatte

breathe

*

Photographed
5 August 2010
at
Cafè der Provinz
Maria Treu Gasse 3
8th District

Images and text
© by Merisi
Repost, firs published in 2010

Morning under the Big SkyMerisi's Viennese Escapes

After the Rain
The day rose bright, with clear sky in the east,
the sun busy burning off the morning fog hanging over
the hills and mountains to the west
Photographed this morning in Vorarlberg,
in the far west of Austria
Image and Text © by Merisi

Spring

Windswept Camomile Flower
Vineyards
National Park Neusiedler See
Burgenland
First published 2 May 2008

Feasting after DarkDrinking Coffee elsewhere

Coffee came last,
the end note of

a veritable feast.
Ravioli tinged with sage,

chocolate soufflé
accompanied by vanilla
and jewels of rhubarb and strawberry
Photographed at Gasthaus Kreuz
6922 Wolfurt, Vorarlberg
Images and Text © by Merisi