April Theme Day: Pedestrians Crossing

At the intersection Maysedergasse - Tegetthoffstraße in the city center.
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Happy Easter!

All these wooden bunnies are wishing you a very happy Easter!

Easter Car

Get out of the way! The Easter bunny is in a rush, he wants to deliver the Easter baskets in time...

Easter Eggs

Some of the 40.000 beautifully hand painted Easter eggs piled up at the Old Vienna Easter Market in the city center.

Old Vienna Easter Market

The Old Vienna Easter Market at the Freyung is famous for its huge amount (ca. 40.000) of painted Easter eggs piled up in the center of the market. You can get there also other Easter decorations and snacks from the Austrian provinces.  

Easter Sweets

Let´s stop talking about the still bad (according to a colleague of mine "non-sexy") weather and better focus on getting in the Easter mood with a photo of some Easter sweets. Aren´t the chocolate chickens cute? Could you eat them?

Too snowy to sit outside

Last week I told you that it was too cold to sit outside. Well, things didn´t get better: now it´s not only too cold but also too snowy to enjoy the outdoor areas of the cafés and restaurants. Admittedly it´s not as much snow as we had in January and February, but for March it´s definitely too much. As I´m writing these lines (00:07 a.m.) it´s still snowing and I can regularly hear the sound of the snowplow.

Does This Look Like Spring?

I took this photo yesterday afternoon in the Volksgarten. Look at those icicles! Spring, where are you?... By the way, this fountain was created by the German-Austrian sculptor Anton Dominik Ritter von Fernkorn in 1866.

Sunday Flowers #68

"Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men."  - Chinese Proverb
(I would love to recognize spring, but with temperatures around 0°C it´s hard to do so...)

Red Door

Last wednesday evening the Jewish Museum Vienna hosted a special event and welcomed the guests with a red carpet and an illuminated doorway.

Façade Detail #22

A caryatid on a building in the city center.

Easter Bunnies

Easter Bunnies in the window of the confectionary Gerstner in the city center.

Flower Shop

Spring starts today. So much for the theory. The reality is that it´s still rather cold and feels a lot like winter. At least the flowers in front of this flower shop in the 7th district look like spring.

A Walk in Schönbrunn

Last Sunday afternoon in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace: blue sky, wind, chilly temperature and bald trees. I´m waiting for spring!

Too Cold to Sit Outside

The deserted outdoor area of the café at the Gloriette yesterday afternoon - it was sunny, but rather chilly.

Happy 3rd Blogiversary!

This blog is 3 years today! I started it just for fun without knowing how long I would be able to take interesting photos of my native city. Keeping my eyes open for details has helped me to see Vienna in a new way and I´m very much looking forward to sharing my photographs with you for another year. Many thanks to everyone who has ever visited my blog and especially to those who left a comment, I appreciate your support very much.

Some First Easter Sweets

The Easter bunnies found their way into the supermarkets and the shop windows. Furthermore various Easter markets are open from this weekend until 1 April.

Façade Detail #21

An ornament on a façade in the city center.

Winter is Back

Spring tries the Viennese's patience...It´s snowing again... In spring and summer you can drink hot and cold tea behind the fence on the right side - it´s the outdoor area of a teahouse in the city center.

Spring Fashion

Last week we had a small foretaste of spring, but now it has gotten cold again and the forecasts even talk about snow within the next few days. But soon (I hope!) we will be able to wear the new spring fashion. 

Garfield Cake

Are you looking for a fancy cake for a children's birthday party? This Garfield cake might be the perfect choice.

Green Door

This green door gives access to an impressive apartment building in the 3rd district.

Sunday Flowers #67

"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." - John Ruskin

Let´s Sit Outside Again

In Vienna the cafés and restaurants are legally obligated to close their outdoor areas every year from December to February. But now we have March and when the weather is nice enough the sidewalks are again populated with people enjoying their drink or meal outside.

Breaking The Rules: Excursion to Linz #3

The Trinity Column on the main square of Linz is 20 metres high and made of white marble. It is a typical symbol of the baroque period and was erected in gratitude by those who had survived a variety of disasters. The column should also protect the citizens from war, fire and plague.

Breaking The Rules: Excursion to Linz #2

Façades in the city center of Linz.

Breaking The Rules: Excursion to Linz #1

Some weeks ago I made an excursion to Linz, the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria. In this photo you can see a small street in the city center and the spire of the New Cathedral. With 20.000 seats, the cathedral is the largest, but not the highest, church in Austria. The originally-planned, higher spire was not approved, because in Austria-Hungary at the time, no building was allowed to be taller than the South Tower of the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. At 135 m, the New Cathedral is two meters shorter than the Viennese cathedral.

Façade Detail #20

The Wienzeile n° 38 building was designed by famous Austrian architect Otto Wagner, the beautiful golden ornaments  were done by Koloman Moser.

Snow Caps

The snow is already gone, but I still want to show you this photo because I think that these snow caps look very cute.

Sunday Flowers #66

"To create a little flower is the labor of ages." - William Blake

The Gloriette

A last picture of my recent walk in the snowy gardens of Schönbrunn Palace: The Gloriette was originally built as a view point and "temple of glory". Later on it was equipped with glass windows and became a location for dinner and festivities, today it houses a café.

March Theme Day: Café Chairs

Okay, I have to admit that the chairs in this photo don´t belong to a café but to a French bistro at Palais Ferstel, but you can find these kind of chairs (and tables) in a lot of Viennese cafés.
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Snowy Artwork

During my last walk in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace, I saw a lot of snow men. These three young people didn´t content themselves with creating an ordinary snow man, they were working on a real piece of art.

Z Loves C

A (temporary) sign of Z+C's love on a tree in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace. I don´t know them but I wish them all the best.

A Walk in The Snow

The gardens of Schönbrunn Palace are always a good place for a Sunday afternoon walk, especially when they are covered with snow.

Snowy Trees

Snowy trees on Ringstrasse last Saturday.

Sunday Flowers #65

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” - Anne Bradstreet

It´s Snowing Again

While I´m eagerly waiting for spring, winter doesn´t want to end and covers the city again with snow. I took this photo some weeks ago in Stadtpark, but looking out of my window, I´m pretty sure that it looks exactly like this today.

Christopher Columbus

This sculpture of Christopher Columbus welcomes the students of the Vienna Business School in the city center.

21er Haus #6

The bookshop at the 21er Haus was conceived as an art project. The "Salon für Kunstbuch" is a "sculpture in which people gather for discourse and in which existing forms of organization are tested". Well, the only thing that I noticed, is that the books and magazines are arranged by colour.

21er Haus #5

The 21er Haus also houses the estate of Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba (1907-1975). Some of his sculptures are shown on the terrace in the basement.

21er Haus #4

The day before yesterday I was at the 21er Haus, a museum that focuses on Austrian art from 1945 to the present day. The building was originally constructed for the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1958.

Régalité

In october 2012, the renovation of the educational center of the Vienna Chamber of Labour has been completed by erecting the installation "Régalité" by Austrian artist Hans Schabus (*1970) in front of the building. The name of this huge bookshelf is the mix of the German word for "shelf" and the French "égalité" (equality) and emphasizes that education has to be accessible for everybody.

Sunday Flowers #64

"The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination." - Terri Guillemets

Liechtenstein Garden Palace #2

The Liechtenstein Garden Palace last Saturday. Last week we had more snow, but by now it is mostly gone.

First View

Despite the winterly weather the department store Steffl in the city center is offering a first view of the spring fashion trends.

... can´t buy me love

"I'll give you all I've got to give if you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give but what I've got I'll give to you
For I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love." - The Beatles 
Happy Valentine´s Day to my dear readers!

Little Girl And Ducks

I took this photo some weeks ago when we had the first days of snow but I could have taken it yesterday because the snow is back. During my walk through a very winterly Stadtpark, this toddler in her pink dawn jacket caught my eyes and I stopped to watch how she had fun with the ducks.

Carnival Sweets

Today is Shrove Tuesday, the last day of the carnival and the last day before Lent. In other words: the last possibility to indulge in some carnival sweets...

A Walk in Snowy Volksgarten

Vienna is again covered with a thin blanket of snow.