Like a Cloud of Blossoms Falling

Peony

Blossoms Falling
Ooberman, The Magic Treehouse
Written By:
D. Popplewell/A. Flett

White Peony

Sunshine

Peony

La Piccola

Spring Meadow

13th District, Vienna

Mary Kay in Vienna

Sunday, May 27, 2007
InterContinental Hotel, Vienna

Before the Curtain Falls

"Wir sind hier,
weil es existiert."
"We are here,
because it exists."

Café Hawelka
May 25, 2007

White Peony

White peony

Kissed by the Morning Sun

Double Blossomed Peony

Market Day

Saturday morning at
Yppenmarkt

Peonies II

Paeonia

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Blue Hour

Linden Tree
Schönbrunn Park
May 24, 2007

"Walk around feeling like a leaf."

Naomi SHIHAB NYE, “Words Under The Words”

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An Evening in May

Bill Clinton, among others
Shooting the breeze
Schönbrunn Palace
May 24, 2007

True Love

Demel's, Vienna - May 23, 2007

"High Society"
1956
Starring Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby

Midsummernight's Scent

Les Nuits d'Hadrien
Lemon, grapefruit, citron and cypress

The Roman Emperor Hadrian of
Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian"
inspired Annick Goutal to create this fragrance.

Iron and Glass

Wrought iron and etched glass
Service entrance, Demel's, Vienna

Hietzing

Vienna
13th District

All About Me

... and then some! :-)

Sweet Heart on Gold

"Life is but a dream"
Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy"
in a nutshell.

Hofzuckerbäckerei Gerstner, Vienna

Evening Rose

Waiting for Demel

Vienna, Sunday, 9.58 am
Corner Graben and Kohlmarkt
Reading "Waiting for Godot"
while waiting for Demel to open.

Rosa e Cioccolata

Schokolade König
Freisingergasse 1, Vienna

Heart with Roses

Altmann & Kühne
Am Graben, Vienna

Sunny Day

Rosemary and Red Rose
Salon Hollmann
Heiligenkreuzerhof

The Little Fighter

Down by the railroad tracks.
13th District, Vienna

Lavender Blue

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for more lavender blue images.

Wish Upon a Star

Martha Srna Modlitby
Naglergasse 1-3

On a Hot Summer's Day

Under chestnut trees in the Augustiner Beer Garden,
Mönchsberg Hill, Salzburg

First Cherries

Sunday, May 13
Salzburg, Maria Plain Orchards

On the Ledge

Reflection

Papavero

Windblown poppy
Photo taken on the banks of the Danube river
on Wednesday morning, May 9.

Miocene Messenger

Swan
Danube River

Mystery

“You know, bees have been around for hundreds of million of years, at least, as living creatures,” Clayton said. “And when you work a hive, and you’re there with that hive alone, and you hear how contented the bees are, you just have the sense that they have the pulse of the universe encoded in their genes. And I really feel that the concept of wisdom is like that, too. Somehow, like the bees, we are programmed to understand when someone has been wise. But what wisdom is, and how one learns to be wise, is still somewhat of a mystery.”
Neuropsychologist Vivian Clayton
Quoted in Stephen S. Hall's article
The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis
The New York Times Magazine
May 6, 2007

Photo taken at a water playground
on the banks of the Danube river
on Monday, May 7.

Keepsake

Seated on Elysian Lawns

Ode

Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too,
Double lived in regions new?
Yes, and those of heaven commune
With the spheres of sun and moon;
With the noise of fountains wound'rous,
And the parle of voices thund'rous;
With the whisper of heaven's trees
And one another, in soft ease

Seated on Elysian lawns
Brows'd by none but Dian's fawns;
Underneath large blue-bells tented,
Where the daisies are rose-scented,
And the rose herself has got
Perfume which on earth is not;
Where the nightingale doth sing
Not a senseless, tranced thing,
But divine melodious truth;
Philosophic numbers smooth;
Tales and golden histories
Of heaven and its mysteries.

Thus ye live on high, and then
On the earth ye live again;
And the souls ye left behind you
Teach us, here, the way to find you,
Where your other souls are joying,
Never slumber'd, never cloying.
Here, your earth-born souls still speak
To mortals, of their little week;
Of their sorrows and delights;
Of their passions and their spites;
Of their glory and their shame;
What doth strengthen and what maim.
Thus ye teach us, every day,
Wisdom, though fled far away.

Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Ye have souls in heaven too,
Double-lived in regions new!

John Keats

Temporary Rose Parade

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May Evening

Oh, could I join all life together
all souls unite as one with you.
Oh, could I but enfold, embrace you all,
All my foes, my friends, and brothers,
And all of nature, and all of nature,
In my embraces all enfold.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
"I Greet You All, You Woods and Forests"

Chestnut Floret

Meytengasse
Vienna, 13th District