Don't Blink

Are there any "Doctor Who" fans out there? If there are, you'll understand why statuary creeps me out now.

I do like these two ladies, though. I found them one morning in Vienna and was impressed by their drapery. I took an art history class in college and it made me understand and appreciate art a lot more, especially how difficult drapery was to sculpt. This sculptor, whoever he was, did a pretty decent job.

Morning in Vienna

After reading the blog Merisi's Vienna for Beginners (which has the most beautiful photographs, I highly recommend it), I've been somewhat nostalgic about my brief time in Vienna -- which led to again digging into my old Europe pictures and prizing this one out of the mass. I took this on a bright spring morning in Vienna when a friend and I were on our way to the Hofburg Palace to visit the Spanish Riding School. It was an absolutely beautiful morning with the sun shining down from a sky so impossibly blue it looked unreal, like a painted ceiling in an Italian palazzo. All in all that was a wonderful day.

Vienna Past and Present

More old/new, this time in Vienna, Austria. A horse-drawn carriage drives down a cobblestone street past a Starbucks. Hmmmm.....what's wrong with this picture?

This trip was also during my semester in Denmark. During the first week of our three week study break, my program took us on what they call study tours. I chose to go on the trip to Budapest, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria, and definitely did not regret it! I had a blast, they're both such vibrant, beautiful, fantastic cities.