Today's Flowers - Late Autumn Flowers

September in Austria was very warm this year, up to 25° C /77° F!
And the weather will be warm also next week!

And the gardens in Vienna are still full of colourful flowers!

See flowers all around the globe here!

Autumn is on its way!

On my trip this afternoon I saw

Crystal raindrops on spiderwebs

Delicate butterflies in autumn colours

Bizarre flowers of late summer

In a softly rolling landscape

A roadside shrine unter trees

amidst wineyards full of grapes

in red and blue and gold

and sooo delicious!

What a fabulous season!

A wonderful end of summer and flowers on my window

We had a wonderful second half of August here in Vienna this year,
warm, hot, sunny, temperatures inviting you to swim in the Old and the New Danube.

Today the sky was as blue as the morning glories in the Pawlatsche, the arcade, leading to the doors of our apartments on our floor.

On my window, the flowers celebrate the end of summer.

I spent the whole day at the the New Danube today, swimming, dozing in the sun, walking along the beach, my doggy trying to catch fish in the shallow water. Now she is satisfied and sleepy! So am I!

Have a pleasant week ahead!

A Kiss on the Hand

On our hiking tour in Slovenia we came across two happy free-ranging pigs. The piggies were willing to establish contact with us!

My friend put fourth her hand and one of the curious little fellows came near!

After a careful examination, he gently kissed her hand!

A perfect cavalier!

But one kiss is not enough!
The devoted gentleman did not refuse my hand too, and so I could also feel the cool touch of his little wet snout!

He was a perfect charmer! And I guess he was well aware of that!

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Skies in Egypt

Sky Watch Friday:
Here are some pictures I made in Egypt in November last year!
Sky watch pictures, of course :)

Here are our first impressions of the African sky :
White feathery clouds over pink desert sands!
I was really stunned!

I think I made 100 pictures or even more!

And then the blue-green strip of the river Nile appeared!

Egypt's lifeline in the desert!

The white sails of a felucca boat brought us to the Botanical Garden in Assuan.

The subtropical vegetation of Kitchener's island gave us pleasant shadow in the heat of the Assuan skies!

Mimosa bushes perfumed the sky over the eternal temples of Abu Simbel.

In Edfu, antique columns worshipped the sky since ancient times.

Finally we reached the Red Sea at Hurghada,
with desert moutains in the evening light hovering over bizarre tourist palaces...

Ahhh... romantic, though,...

We visited a Bedouin-village in the desert mountains at dusk.
A camel ride, Bedouin dishes, Bedouin carpets...

Bedouin children
going home when the sky was getting pale.

Sunset over the desert!

We went back to Europe and wished to come back soon!

Sky Watch Friday!
All around the globe!

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Gladioli and a new camera

I have a new camera! I spend my evenings at home studying the instruction manual!
And from time to time I dare take a snapshot, try some retouching, and enjoy the result :-)
Oh, it's so much fun to have a new camera!

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Flowers on my window

Now it's the most beautiful time of the year in Vienna:
The temperatures are summerly warm, but the nights and mornings are cool and refreshing;
The air is perfumed with the fragrance of flowering lime-trees, sweet acacia and jasmine.

On my windowsill, my orange tree and the little flowers I brought from Turkey, enjoy the hot midday sun. Not to forget my cactuses!


Have a pleasant Whitsunday everywhere!