--- Morning surprise! First snow for Vienna's 2012-2013 Winter season. --- ...
--- It has been a joke among my friends to take the broom when autumn comes. I just love this season, all the earthly colors showcasing themselves. I'll opt the broom out. --- --- It has been a joke among my friends to take the broom...
“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.” - Buddha Seeing the beauty of life in a world seemingly in chaos is a...
Riesenrad/Giant Wheel at night It has been my yearly habit to post one such as this, like an overview of the year past. On this day, ten years ago, my daughter and I came to Vienna to rejoin my husband. Then, I often include a number of photos...
--- Autumn - looks like spring though save for one tree. Loving it! --- --- Autumn - looks like spring though save for one tree. Loving it! --- ...
photo by hubby, night after work Ten years ago, we lived in this busy area of Vienna, where shopping stores are abundant and where there are always a lot of people like ants going about looking for food.There's a number of romantic Vienna hotels, apartments and cafes lining...
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. - George Eliot -- Looking out the window in the morning is something I do everyday. Hmmm, I can't particularly say why,...
Gloriette, Schönbrunn --- As an impressionable kid growing up, I’ve always loved the great outdoors. Even if the gadgets we have today were available back then, I still probably would have preferred going outside to play than staying in the living room, fiddling with my Nintendo DS....
Beautiful morning for a run. -- It's October...finally? The cool breeze is setting in...and it's the perfect day to run. If those old pair of skinny jeans can go no further up than your knees when you try to put them on, don’t pull your hair out...
Saying goodbye to the summer that was. --- Without batting an eyelash, I’d say with firm conviction that summer is the best season of the year. Who in his right mind wouldn’t like summer? Other than the fact that the sunny weather gives you reason to show...
This...a view of Vienna's outskirts from our apartment. --- “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone”… This line from a Joni Mitchell original keeps playing inside my head (better that way, I guess, than me singing it out loud,...
It is Blue alright, but not as picturesque as Hawaii Sun, sand and surf are perfect elements for a picture perfect summer vacation, and you may find all these in abundance when you visit the fun islands of Hawaii. Totally different from how Vienna is... Hawaii's got six...
That Vienna lags behind other European cities when it comes to attraction and amusement parks is so true. Comparing Vienna to Paris in an earlier post, there is more to do in Paris within this department, Paris has Disneyland Resort to boast. Even Germany has a number of...
Aside from the ducks and ducklings inhabiting this pond at Schönbrunn's Roman ruin, there are two sculptures representing the rivers Danube and Enns. Though the ruin is a set of follies, the sculptures perfectly fit as though the surroundings were made just for them. ...
Neptune Fountain, Schönbrunn. (I'd be under this fountain and stay there should I be allowed, the heat is just too much!) It's summer and it's time to get away for a while. :) We're thinking New York. There are some cities in the world that you never seem...
Before one gets to Schönbrunn's Great Parterre, coming from the right side, there's a landscaped part that one can't miss and can't resist taking photos of. There's a walkway that one can thread under the vines...there's a wall of roses too and this part are asymmetrical arrangements with...
The Wagenburg is a museum of carriages and vehicles used by the imperial household of the Austrian Empire. It is housed in the grounds of the Schlosses Schönbrunn in the Hietzing district of Vienna and is a department of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Its exhibits include the Imperialwagen. We...
Sailing calmly at the Danube. Two of the things the kids and I planned to do for so many years now is to cruise around the Danube and go boating. The latter we did some time ago. It was a bit cold but we went biking and afterwards...
Today's view of Vienna's skyline from the Gloriette. Seen is the back of the Schönrunn Palace, there's going to be a concert so it was a bit chaotic today... Below is the Gloriette, would love to go up the top again this summer! ...
It's almost summer, time to head out and enjoy, have fun with the kids! For Viennese, there's the Danube where a lot of things can happen and the Praterstern where you can find rides, food and what other things can stir the child in you. ...
Ever met the very photogenic Pomeranian Boo? He's the most famous dog around with over 4.2 million fans on his page. Boo's owner doesn't disclose much about their whereabouts but we can be sure they're somewhere in the US....so what is Boo doing on the pages of Vienna's...
--Naturhistorisches Museum-- - Many of my friends who travel abroad often would ask how Vienna fare against Paris. These two cities are very distinct and I can't help but be biased about the former to the point of saying that it is still one of the top (most...
What I look forward to in spring are those colors, vibrant colors of the sky, the trees starting to turn green and the reflection of the now lively river. ...
A cargo rail train passes by the train tracks seen from another platform --- for passengers. ÖBB stands for Österreichische Bundesbahnen - Austrian Federal Railways. It is the national railway system of Austria, and the administrators of Liechtenstein's railways. The ÖBB group is owned entirely by the Republic of Austria and...
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. -Egon Schiele, Austrian painter--- ...
Every corner and street and view in Vienna becomes so picturesque when spring comes...it's the sky, the grasses and the trees waiting to come to life that brings in all those earthly colors. Gotta love! ...
A drive by shot. How many times have you seen this Ferris Wheel featured here? :) ...
It's spring and it follows that a lot of flowers are now blooming. A lot of flower shops, big and small are now open for business. Most popular of course are the tulips, daffodils and gerberas but roses and other flowers in different colors are available too. Spring...
Spring 2012 In many cities, plum blossoms and magnolias mark the arrival of spring. True enough, they are the first to bloom this season. Plum blossoms, pear tree blossoms too are now starting to bloom and it also brings the beginning or pollen allergies. Achoo! The skies are...
Still from the Bridal Fair, I took a lot of photos of different wedding cake toppers for my friend to look at. Cake toppers say a lot about the bride and groom. Their choice of whether elegant bride and groom figurines or funny cake toppers to monogram cake...
