Viennese Escapes / Great Photo Blog

Mattina
Casa del Melagrano
Morning at the
Pomegranate House


Caorle
Veneto Region
Italy

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Photographed
23 September 2009
Images and text
© by Merisi

The Paling Roses Of A Cloud
Pale rose
Viennese cupcakes

You
didn't
think
there
were
n o
c
u
p
c
a
k
e
s

in

V
i
e
n
n
a,

did you?

;-)

Photographed
this afternoon
at
CupCakes
First Viennese Cupcakery
"1. Wiener Cupcake-Geschäft"
Josefstädter Strasse 17
8th District

"... the paling roses of a cloud ..."
by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Still Life
with red coffee cup,

water glass
and iPhone

Coffee Break
Photographed
yesterday afternoon
at Café Diglas' Schanigarten
Wollzeile

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Schanigarten:
Viennese for tables
set up on the sidewalk
in front of a coffeehouse

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Melancolie in Settembre
by Peppino di Capri

L'Heure Bleue
has arrived at
Vienna's Rose Garden.
The National Theater building
still retains the faint golden glow
of the sun's last rays
sinking fast behind the tree tops,
irretrievably

giving free reign
to atmospheric blues
before dusk falls

A sea of roses
burning bright,
one last rearing up
as twilight gives way
to dove-grey dusk

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Photographed
23 September 2010
Images and text
© by Merisi

Laden With Fruit
Reflections
Kohlmarkt

Weighing the Good Life
Demel Royal and Imperial Confectioners
Kohlmarkt

Fall Fashion
Shop Window
Kohlmarkt

Deserted
At the Peal of the Bell
Vespri Viennesi
Kohlmarkt

"And every year there is a brief, startling moment
When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and
Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless
Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air:
It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies;
It is the changing light of fall falling on us."

Quoted from the poem
"Fall" by Edward Hirsch

"Laden with Fruit"
is from William Blake's
"To Autumn" poem

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Images photographed
in the late afternoon
3 October 2009
© by Merisi

A Slice of Chocolate Bread
brought to you
by a Viennese bakery.

What's next,
Viennese hot dogs
with chocolate chips?

Just a little smile
for you, dear readers!
More later,
after I have dressed
the plums in my kitchen
in some fancy dough,
rolled them into little balls,
boiled them in water,
fished them out and put
them on dry land, i.e.
golden toasted bread crumbs -
fresh from the bakery which
so gernerously handed out
the slice of chocolate bread
for tasting -
and then served
with a little homemade
caramel sauce,
Zwetschkenknödel,
in short, plum dumplings,
with a Merisi twist.
Bon appetit!



In case you are wondering
why I am toiling in the kitchen
instead of working
on my photography:

I had a
Terrible, Horrible, No Good,
Very Bad Photography Day
yesterday:
The gorgeous pictures
I took yesterday
while grape harvesting -
yes I work about a couple of hours
as a grape picker,
getting my hands all juicy and sticky -
the pictures, all gone,
in an instant, thanks to
a brand-new card reader!
Yes, one little flickering
and my card, with the fruit
of an afternoon's labour,
all gone!

Not only that,
my main project yesterday,
a wine commercial
that I need for school,
did not work out either.
My fault, beginner's lesson:
Know thy subjects,
know thy props,
know thy lighting!
At least, I learned a few lessons
with that one, but over the lost
grape pictures gathered in the field,
I cried a little, when I realized
this morning that they were gone
for good.


So, that's the reason
I decided that for once
I shall play in the kitchen,
hoping for an Erfolgserlebnis!

May your day be filled
with successful endeavours!
Yours,
Merisi


Erfolgserlebnis -
experience sucess

Window
with Pink Geraniums
Open-Air Museum
Niedersulz
Lower Austria
35 miles northeast
of Vienna

"... 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
Under the Linden Trees
Botanical Garden
of the University of Vienna

Upper Belvedere Palace
View from the
Botanical Garden

Photographed
Saturday afternoon
18 September 2010
in the Botanical Garden
of the University of Vienna
Rennweg and Joaquingasse
3rd District

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Copyright by Merisi

There

simply

is

no

need

for

words

for

the obvious

Or

is

there?

Time stands still
while outside

the century grinds on

Café Drechsler
Linke Wienzeile 22/
Girardigasse 1
A-1060 Vienna
Phone +43 (0)1 581 20 44

Serving coffee
at its corner of
Vienna's Naschmarkt
since 1919.
Since 2007
its interiors reflect
Sir Terence Conran's vision
of a modern day coffee house

Drechsler's opens early
and closes late:
Monday
8 am to 2 am,
Tuesday – Saturday
from 3 am to 2 am,
Sunday
from 3 am to 12 midnight

Homepage:
Café Drechsler

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Images and Text
© 2010 by Merisi

Credit:
"the century grinds on"
is the last line of Margaret Atwoods'
poem "In the Secular Night"