Summer Night Concertby the Vienna PhilharmonicLive from Schönbrunn Park

Image © by Merisi

Feast of Corpus Christi Processions Botanical Gardens of the University of Vienna

The Botanical Garden
of the University of Vienna
Rennweg 14

The garden covers 20 Acres,
and is immediately adjacent to the parks
of the Belvedere palaces
and the Belvedere Alpine Garden

Corpus Christi Procession
of the Mary Mother of God parish


The Parish church grounds border on the
Botanic Garden


A small gate in the garden wall
allows access from the church grounds
to the garden beyond


After celebrating mass on the Feast of Corpus Christi,
which this year is celebrated on May 22,
a processon was being held,
leading through the Botanical Gardens,
and back to the church grounds

"Many English-speaking countries
celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi
on the Sunday after Trinity Sunday —
on the Sunday after the traditional
Thursday celebration in other countries"
Source: Wikipedia
For more information,
click on the picture above


Agape Feast
After the procession returned to the church,
the parish members, and guests like me,
were invited to refreshments
in the church yard

Muttergotteskirche
Church of Mary Mother of God
Jacquingasse 53

Photographed with my little Sony Cybershot
in May 2008 - R e p o s t
images and text © Merisi

Peony DaysViennese Moments

Pink Peonies and Blue Doors

Red Peonies in a Box

True Pink Peonies

Cherries and Peonies

Wine and Red Roses

Photographed 24 May 2008
at the Farmers' Market
YppenPlatz
16th District
© by Merisi
R e p o s t

The World's largest Lake StageBregenz Festival House

Ready Maid
Sculpture by Gottfried Bechtold
in front of the Bregenz Festival House -
Square of the Vienna Symphonics


The Magic Flute
Come July - and hopefully better weather -
Mozart's opera will be performed on the lake


Walking under the arena
of the Festival stage

Photographed
26 May 2013
in Bregenz, Vorarlberg
© Merisi

Lake Constance in the RainViennese Escapes

Lake Constance
Still raining in the west

Photographed
26 May 2013
Bregenz, Vorarlberg
© Merisi

As far West as you can go in AustriaSeeing the green Hills of Switzerland

In the Far West of Austria
The green hills of Switzerland from a train station in Vorarlberg

Photographed 23 May 2013 at 8:30 PM after a thunderstorm
For more images of Vorarlberg, click here -> Merisi's Vorarlberg
Image and Text © by Merisi

Viennese MomentsEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Polarstern
Polar Star Moment? In Vienna?
Where else?

Polar Star Rose
Gracing Vienna's Rose Garden
Since 1982!

La Grappa
Cappuccino
Aufhofstrasse

Simply Because
I love it.
Shell and small window.
Franciscan Church
Weihburggasse

The Salts of Life
Zum Schwarzen Kameel
The Night Kitchen

Artist's Atelier
Door sign in a Viennese
Pawlatschen Courtyard

Weine
Wine
Where?
I forgot.
Too much wine.

Yesterday's News
Newspapers bundled and tied
Ready for Recycling
Café Kandinsky

Le Muffin
Café Le Bol
Neuer Markt

Café Diglas
A smile worth a thousand words
Wollzeile

Hellmann Salon
Menue
Heiligenkreuzer Hof

Frisch gestrichen
Wet paint!

Foto
Reflection behind letters
Letters with reflection?
Pause. Reflect.
Push the shutter-release button.

No Letters. No Words.
Still, a sign of the times.
Autumn's here.
Schwedenplatz Metro Station
Five minutes from St. Stephen's Cathedral.

Photographed by Merisi
in September 2008
R e p o s t
Images and Text © by Merisi

Gnomes in Urban LandscapeViennese Gnoments in Time

I have been walking by this fellow
for several months now.
He's still turning his back to me. **


Country in an urban window


Inquiring about the little red-hatted fellow,
I was told, he wasn't quite ready yet.
And got presented with another Gartenzwerg.


Easily the prettiest window boxes
in the First District.
And not only for the potted peony.


The same windows, with last summer's bounty


Oranje Fan
Soccer Worldcup 2006


Griechengasse
Walking towards Fleischmarkt


Griechengasse towards Hafnersteig
Photo taken on the same spot
as the one above,
only this time with the back to Fleischmarkt:
To your left, Griechengasse continues,
with St. George's Church (ca. 1800);
ahead of you;
slightly to your right,
sloping towards the Donaukanal,
bégins Hafnersteig


Looking from Griechengasse, beyond Hafnersteig,
Franz-Josef-Kai and the Donaukanal,
to Leopoldstadt (2nd District),
i.e. the view, that the gentlemen
in the above photo have ahead of them

Photographed with my little Sony Cybershot
way back on 7 June 2007
R e p o s t
A New York times article pondering the
surprise appearance of the Common Garden Gnome at the revered Chelsea Flower Show prompted me to republish this six year old post.
Such sweet memories of my encounter with a great gentleman and his a bit naughty garden gnomes!
Links:
-> New York Times: Common Gnomes Pop Up at Rarefied Flower Show, to Horror of Many
-> From the BBC: The Quinn visit to the Chelsea Flower Show - Mum about the Gnomes?

Prince Eugene's BelvedereViews from the Upper Belvedere

Belvedere
A structure designed to command a view
In Italian "belvedere" means "beautiful view"


The Belvedere
Prince Eugene's Summer Residence
Looking over the Upper Palace's gardens
towards the Lower Belvedere Palace
and the city beyond -
in the center, the spire of St. Stephen's Cathedral


Photographed the morning
of 18 May 2013
Images and Text © by Merisi

Link to previous posts -> Views from the Belvedere

Empress Elisabeth of AustriaMemorial Garden at Volksgarten Park

Elisabeth of Austria
Memorial by Hans Bitterlich
Volksgarten


Hidden away in the northern-most corner of the Volksgarten Park -
in the Art Noveau inspired gardens by architect Friedrich Ohmann -


lies a marble terraced memorial garden
for Elisabeth of Austria, the empress who tragically died
at the hands of a vile assassin in 1898


Photographed 19 May 2013
Images and Text © by Merisi