ABC Wednesday: I is for Iris

Wild Iris
Giaggiolo

Festa del Giaggiolo
Every year San Polo in Chianti,
a small town in the Chianti Valley,
celebrates the Iris bloom with a festival.

This year's "Iris Festival"
will be held on May 17th and 18th.


Photographed in February
in the hills of Tuscany
near San Polo in Chianti.

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Urban Spring

Schönborn-Platz
8th District

Geographic Boundaries

Border Line
High Above the River Inn
Austria (A) and Germany (D)

From the Vienna Woods

Spring Flowers

Red and Blue

Red Tulips

Red Tulips
Mercato di S. Ambrogio
Piazza Ghiberti
Florence, Italy

Cherry Blossoms

"What a strange thing!
To be alive
Beneath cherry blossoms."

Kobayashi Issa
(1763-1828)

Pink Double Cherry Blossoms
Galerie Kandinsky
Photographed
March 11
8th District

On the Edge

Lange Gasse
Josefstadt
8th District

Lilac

Red

Christian L. Einwaller Ateliers
Palais Harrach
Freyung
Vienna

Coming Home

Fiddlehead Spoon

Hey! diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

(Mother Goose)

Soup Kitchen

Pho Bo For Eleven
Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup

Sometimes she cooks ...

First Candle's Burning

Angel