“There are no flowers in the Moon; that’s why the Moon is a boring place!” - Mehmet Murat Ildan
Another beautiful sunset over the Danube...
Last Sunday evening at the MuseumsQuartier: People hanging out, meeting friends, chatting, enjoying the last sunrays of a one week heatwave...
The balconies of this Renaissance building in the city center are decorated with beautiful wrought iron works from the collection of the painter Friedrich von Amerling.
When the motto of a party is "la vie en pink", you don´t have to be surprised to find pink sushi at the buffet ;-)
Last Thursday I attended the summer party of a company for fine art and exhibition logistics at a restaurant in the 19th district. The motto of the evening was "la vie en pink": all decorations were pink and a lot of people were even dressed in this colour.
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." - Walt Whitman
I love it when the art exhibited at a gallery isn´t only visible behind closed doors, but also takes over the outside.
The department store "Steffl" in the city center recently started the series "Art meets Fashion" and presented these balloon heads, created by the young creative duo "Luftfabrik", in its windows.
I took this photo last Saturday, on my way home after my usual summer bicycle tour on the Danube Island. In the background
you can see the hills of the Wienerwald (Vienna Woods) the building on the right is the Millennium Tower.
Here´s another modern building on the banks of the Danube (but in another district) - the Millennium Tower, completed in 1999 for the coming of the third millennium. For more photos of this skycraper please click here and here.
The first building of this modern area (Donau City) - in this photo seen from the Danube Island - was constructed in 1995 and there´s still no end of construction in sight.
Yesterday evening, on my way home from the gym, I discovered this scary creature in a courtyard.
Reflections on the façade of a building in the city center.
The past few days the weather was just like it should be in June - warm and sunny. Perfect for anybody who owns a balcony.
The windows and glass cubes of the Swarovski store in the city center are currently featuring the installation “All that glitters is gold" by the famous British milliner Philip Treacy. One of his creations is this "ship hat".
"You´re only here for a short visit. Don´t hurry, don´t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way." - Walter Hagen
Well, I´ve never been to New York, but I´ve seen a lot of photos of the skyscrapers in this city and these office buildings in the 3rd district look rather similar to me.
A tree reflected on the façade of an office building in the 3rd district.
As I told you already yesterdy, there's no summer in sight so far. It's still rainy and cold and the outdoor areas of the cafés are deserted, like here on Graben. For information about the Plague Column in the background please click here.
For the meteoroligsts summer started on June 1. Unfortunately they forgot to tell the weather to behave accordingly - it´s rainy and rather cool. The only sign of the new season is this figure in Stadtpark which represents summer. For spring please click here.
This small statue is located amidst a bed of roses in the Hirschstetten Flower Gardens, the cultivation gardens of the Municipal Department which is in charge of the
Viennese parks and gardens.
