weekly photo challenge – liquid (happy hours)

“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” Ernest Hemingway https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/liquid/ Advertisements

cee’s fun foto challenge – cameras and owners (in action)

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” David Alan Harvey “Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” Diane Arbus Claudia@HappyFace313, Albertina Museum – Vienna, November 2015 “Essentially what …

in waiting ….

for the cygnets!!! Last year something happened to “my” swan pair … the male was gone for months, she was nesting, but nothing came out of it. I don’t know where the male was???!!! Maybe he was injured or something, he …

meditating clowns

The room is 80 meters long. And there they are 45 clowns in colorful costumes. Some sit and lean against the walls, others lie scattered over the floor as though they were resting. It is the artist Ugo Rondinone who …

weekly photo challenge – unlikely

“Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.” Carlos Santana Unlikely to be a safe luggage chart, especially for the cars! Landskrona, Sweden – May 2012 https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/unlikely/    

cee’s fun foto challenge – going up and down outdoors (stairs)

“Photography is a love affair with life.” Burk Uzzle “When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top” German Proverb   Village steps, Weißenkirchen in der Wachau/Austria – April 2018 “We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of …

travel diary; kirchbach – lunch in weißenkirchen in der wachau

It was easy to get back from Vienna – the commuter train to Tulln. It was Sunday so the train was nearly empty. Spotless clean and I love the red color that the seat had. It took 50 min and …

the last day of winter …. 30th of april

“The Winter Raged” (Longing for the country) – Herman Sätherberg,1812-1897 “The winter raged among our mountains snowdrift melt down and die. The sky smiles in the spring’s bright nights, sun kisses lives in forests and lakes. Soon it is summer here! …

travel diary; kirchbach, austria – vienna on my own (the stadtpark & the burggarten)

I left you at the Schwarzenbergplatz in my last post (travel diary; kirchbach – vienna on my own (karlskirch & schwarzenbergplatz). From there is it about 10 min walk to the Stadtpark without a camera in your hand … for …

travel dairy; kirchbach – a day of calories with dia

So it was time to meet up with my favorite girl in Vienna, Claudia@happface313. With her working away on the bank during the week, our dates have to happen over a weekends. With Robert going into Vienna for his nephew’s …

travel diary; kirchbach, austria – vienna; maria shopping street

I call it so because I can never remember the last bit of the name: Mariahilfer Straße – my kind of shopping street.  Hardly a secret that it’s also the locals favorite shopping street. I think that everyone coming to …

weekly photo challenge – lines

“A curved line for beauty, a straight line for duty.” Violet Linton Steel pipes at Ümran Buro, Istanbul – November 2016 Modern Madrid – September 2015 The US flag at Central Station, New York – September 2013 Lines in restaurant table …

travel diary; kirchbach, austria – klosterneuburg

Klosterneuburg, in the district: Tulln was the first town my friends took me to, about 15 min drive from Kirchbach – a town with about 26.000 inhabits and that is famous for its monastery. In Klosterneuburg I met the spring of 2018.  …

travel diary; kirchbach, austria – days of pure pleasure, endless hospiality and t.i.m.e

“Never let your best friends get lonely … keep disturbing them.” Unkown So, my friends, Carol and Robert have exchanged their magnificent roof terrace in the 19th district of Vienna against a lawn bigger than my apartment up in the …

weekly photo challenge – awakening

  “Spring is nature’s way of saying let’s party!!” Robin William