Autumn impressions

This morning me and my friend Brigitte revisited Lobau, the wetlands of the river Danube.
It was a typical autumn day,
grey sky, pale colours, cool air and the wonderful smell of decaying leaves.

Have a nice weekend ahead!

Sky Watch Friday - Something like sky...

This is the sky I saw this evening on my weekly skywalk with my friend Brigitte.
We 'explored' Wienerberg, a Southern part of Vienna,
actually a very large park, I guess it's as large as Central Park,
and quite wild, natural, original...
Already the Romans mined clay here,
and since 1820 Europe's biggest brickyards were actually here.
All of Vienna's buildings around 1900, "Gründerzeitbauten", derive their bricks from these claypits,
and today several ponds remain where the clay for the bricks was once mined.

We enjoyed a long walk at Wienerberg this evening, with an atmospheric autumn sunset,
and a landscape within the boundaries of a 2 million city, which offers space even to the needs of my cute little doggy D'Ora
(no cyclists around :)

Please check Widipedia's entry for Wienerberg (link), it's only in German, but there are some nice pictures showing the atmosphere of the place!

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Sky Watch Friday - Millennium-Tower-Sky

Vienna's Millennium Tower caught my eye
this evening on my weekly Skywalk with my friend Brigitte.

The tower obediently interprets the colour of the sky,
and the white clouds playfully juxtapose the tower's strictly geometrical form.

The Millennium Tower, located at Handelskai 94-96 in the 20th district of Brigittenau in Vienna, is the tallest building and 3rd tallest structure in Austria at 171 metres (561 feet) after the Donauturm. An antenna mounted on top of the tower brings the architectural height to 202 metres (663 feet) but does not count to its overall height. It was designed by the architects Gustav Peichl, Boris Podrecca and Rudolf Weber. The tower has 51 floors, serves both commercial and residential purposes, and is the focal point of a complex known as "Millennium City". It was completed in 1999 for the coming of the third millennium. The office tower has a gross floor area of 47,200 sqm, of which 38,500 sqm is used as office space. The remaining area is to 2 levels are generally available and is used for a shopping center (Millennium City), restaurants and a multiplex cinema (UCI). The Millennium Tower was built in an extremely short construction time: Thanks to efficient organization of all work steps and modern building techniques have created an average of 2 ½ floors a week and the building completed in 1999.
(WIKIPEDIA)

We continue our walk along the Danube.
The Tower is visible everywhere,
gleaming in the darkening evening light.

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Sky Watch Friday - Summer evening sky

A warm summer evening in the outskirts of Vienna:
A summer sunset behind Leopoldsberg.

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Yesterday, my friend Brigitte and me ("The Vienna Skywalkers")
made our weekly evening tour in the Western part of Vienna.
We went by bus to Kahlenbergerdorf and followed the steep "Nasenweg"
to the top of Leopoldsberg.

Soon, a beautiful view over Vienna and the Danube opened:

You may enlarge the pictures for a more detailed view!

At the foot of the hill you can see the lovely village Kahlenbergerdorf.
There is the Danube (which is actually blue today!!) with Donauinsel and the New Danube,
and in the background the many bridges connecting the "city" with "Transdanubien",
as the Viennese fondly call the northern part of Vienna.

Here a look over the deep green wineyards on the soft rolling hills.

Soon we came across a small "Heurigen" in the middle of the wineyards with a nice view over the flat countryside northeast of Vienna.

We drank a delicious glass of red wine grown on the neighbouring hills, Zweigelt from Hajszan, and slowly walked back to the city.

The last rays of the setting sun deepened the colours over the city and bathed the meadows in a golden light, the hills behind already dark.

Sky Watch Friday - Sunset at the Danube

The weather forecast said rain,
but we enjoyed a wonderful sunset at the Danube yesterday evening.

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Lobau - The Danube's Wetlands in Vienna

Once a month my friend Brigitte and I take a longer walk on Saturday mornings.

Last week we hiked for 5 hours through the wetlands of the Danube, the Lobau, a protected area in the Nationalpark Donauauen.

Enjoy the peaceful landscape and imagine that we
never
left the citiy limits of Vienna!

We crossed an old arm of the Danube on a bridge called Josefsteg, built by the Austrian Army, the Bundesheer, in 2001.

We enjoyed the intensive green colours and took pictures in the cherry grove.

Guess what D'Ora did?

Exactly!

She watched the changing patterns of the shadows cast on the water by the mallards in the reeds!