EvensongHooded Crow sitting in a Treewatching the Sun go down

Evensong
7:03:03 P.M.
28 March 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

Viennese MomentsAnnagasse on an Afternoon in Spring

Pink Zinnia
Outdoor dining in Annagasse
Images and Text © by Merisi

Sunday Morning in the CityThe Emperor's Greenhouse and Gardens

Butterfly behind Glass
Poor fellow,
what must he think

looking out at the sunny
interior of the emperor's greenhouse

where everyone but him
is free to come and go

or sit outside
in the sunshine?
Photographed Sunday morning at the emperor's greenhouse, built in the early 1900s by Jugenstil architect Friedrich Ohman. It is now home to a tropical butterfly house* and the Palmenhaus Café*
Images and Text © by Merisi
* the links are alive!

Towards High Noon in MarchVienna in Spring

Fiaker
Michaelerplatz
What are those guys
fighting about?

Façade in the Shade
Windows reflecting
the sunny side of the street

Michaelertor
St Michael's Gate
A few men behaving badly in public

Tree catching the Sun
Jungmann's shop windows
Albertinaplatz

Vienna Opera House
View from Albertina Palais
Photographed 25 March 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

Sunday Morning in the CityViennese Moments

Window with Pastries
The Pharmacy Café

Michaelerhaus
Courtyard

Viennese Mélange
Coffee Mélange with miniature
apple and farmers cheese strudel
Pâtisserie at Demel's
Images and Text © by Merisi

Coffee in the MorningViennese Moments

Großer Schwarzer
Double shot espresso
and morning papers
Café Orlando di Castello
Freyung 1
Some mornings hit you at full speed
at the break of dawn when the birds start singing
and the time to play is for one image only.
You are invited, though, to linger longer:
just hit one of the labels below and then wander
amongst the images of days gone by, and if you want,
you can continue clicking the labels in perpetuity.
Enjoy meandering,
and a wonderful day to all of you, and
thank you for yesterday's comments,
they were all the sugar I needed in my coffee this morning,
Merisi
Image © by Merisi

First published April 2012
This is a repost - time and muse would not allow for more inspiration
Thank you all!
50mm lens

Coffee in the MorningKleines Café in early Spring

Repast
Feeding body and soul

Kleines Café
Franziskanerplatz
15 March 2012
These links are alive:
More Kleines Café
Kleines Café in the evening
Kleines Café later still
Plus: I always think of Gavin when walking by Kleines Café: Gavin Plumley's Entartete Musik.
Images and Text © by Merisi
50mm lens

Speak softlySpring carries a light Touch

Blumenstockgasse
One of the first addresses I went in search of
when I moved to Vienna was this quaint, narrow lane.
I knew about the place from Thomas Bernhard
mentioning it in "Wittgenstein's Nephew":
... my relations with Paul, which began at
our friend Irena's apartment in Blumenstockgasse ...

Ballgasse
A few more steps and we'd be back
at Blumenstockgasse

Daffodils and Willow Catkins
Stephensplatz and Churhausgasse

Schmierfinken
Fink - finch
schmieren - deface
The urge to deface public spaces
seems to know no reason or cure -
I rather pity the poor innocent finch!

Spring Cleaning
Only steps from the defaced wall,
a gentleman in blue, washing windows
Photographed March 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi
50mm lens

The Cherry OrchardSpring in Vienna

"... everywhere I have been,
every minute, day and night,

my soul has been full
of mysterious anticipations.
I can hear the sound of its footsteps....

I feel the approach of happiness, Anya;
I see it coming ...

it is coming towards us,
nearer and nearer;

And if we do not see it,
if we do not know it,
what does it matter?
Others will see it."

*

Photographed
17 April 2010
St. Marx Cemetery
3rd District
© by Merisi
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"Be free, be free as the wind...."

Quotes from
Anton Chekhov's play
"The Cherry Orchard"

And Spring it is!Frühling in Wien

Shop Window Reflections
Spring is here!
Images and Text © by Merisi
50 mm lens

Monday GlimpsesViennese Moments

In the Flow
I love Diesel's Kohlmarkt shop window,
could well be the most artistic one in town

Street Photography
I have been told that it's a sign of frustration
when street photographers start shooting bikes -
oh well! I was trying to frame the métallisé pink bike
in front of Tiffany's boutique, when this girl
in her pink tights walked by ;-)

Chanel in soft White
Lipstick and clutch in pink
Photographed 19 March 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi
50mm lens

Seraphic Spring

Before you thought of Spring
Except as a Surmise
You see
- God bless his suddenness -
A Fellow in the Skies
Of independent Hues
A little weather worn
Inspiriting habiliments
Of Indigo and Brown —
With specimens of Song
As if for you to choose —
Discretion in the interval
With gay delays he goes
To some superior Tree
Without a single Leaf
And shouts for joy to Nobody
But his seraphic self -


Photographed 9 April 2011 at 1:35PM in Vienna's Stadtpark
The poem is by Emily Dickinson
The images are © by Merisi
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Happy St. Patrick's Day from Vienna!As green as can be

As green as can be
I thought when I spotted
this beautifully costumed couple
in front of the Doge's Palace in Venice
during this year's Carnevale celebrations

May it be a beautiful St. Patrick's
for all of you!
Images and Text © by Merisi

Tulip MadnessVienna in Spring

A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,

But God be with the Clown --
Who ponders this tremendous scene --

This whole Experiment of Green --
As if it were his own!

(Emily Dickinson)
Parrot Tulips in the evening light
Photographed 16 March 2012 on my windowsill
Images © by Merisi

A Walk along Tiefer GrabenVienna in Spring

Hohe Brücke
Upper Bridge
Jugendstil iron bridge
across Tiefer Graben

Façade
Tiefer Graben

Madonna
Statue of the Virgin Mary
on a façade at Tiefer Graben

Photographed 15 March 2012
Images and Text © by Merisi

Der Frühling ist wieder in Wien!Spring came back to Vienna

Spring

is here

again!
Photographed 15 March 2012
Fiaker at St. Stephen's Square,
Johann Strauss Memorial, Stadtpark,
and Café Orlando di Castello, Freyung 1
Listen to Springtime in Vienna by Robert Stolz
Images and Text © by Merisi

Coffee, anyone?Alsergrund's Café Weimar

Kleiner Brauner
Espresso with a shot of milk
Café Weimar
Währinger Strasse
Alsergrund
9th District
Image © by Merisi

The Day the Tulips got awayViennese Moments

Tulips
sneaking out the door
Images and Text © by Merisi

Sometimes I dream in ItalianPostcards from Venice

Undulate
The sun's slowly climbing
down the walls of the Palazzi
along Canal Grande, whilst the gondole
are still undulating deep in their blue dreams
Photographed 21 February 2012
Image and Text © by Merisi

Red and the CityViennese Moments

Red Leather Strap
and wool blankets
Fiaker coach in the shade of
St. Stephen's Cathedral

Red Poppies
Chanel in gilded burlap look
Kohlmarkt

No Red?
Still, Mozart lived here,
in the grey house at Domgasse 5
View from
Schulerstrasse

All Aboard
City tour in fire engine red
Schulerstrasse

Not a Potted Plant
but a red marzipan rose
handmade at Demel's Pâtisserie
Kohlmarkt
Photographed 25 April 2010
Images and text © by Merisi
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