How I hate the category “Miscellaneous”! It’s that dark space under the rug of the disorganized mind where unruly items can be swept, made invisible, and thenceforth ignored.
But here I am, stuck with a miscellany of pictures that have nothing in common (besides for being in Vienna) and that I like too well to discard.
So please. Bear with me.
The angel in the woods
This golden angel seems a good place to start. She is not actually *in* the woods. But she certainly appears to be from this viewpoint. The sight struck me with a particular poignancy thanks to my friend L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright, whose latest book features a statue of an angel in the woods.
And while we’re on the subject of statues…
All day long they’re singing, mmm, my work is so hard
Give me water, I’m thirsty… My work is so hard
Watching from the top of the dome
We came upon what seemed like an unusually dreary neighborhood (well, maybe the dreary part was due to the weather) without much architectural interest. And yet, and yet…
An elegant overpass with its light pole
Watch your step!
This rapidly became our favorite bakery.
We walked blocks out of our way to visit this bakery a second time…
…and a third.
This looks like a good place to shop!
It doesn’t look like anything ought to be able to grow in a corner this dark, but…
Vienna is full of interesting upper-story pedestrian overpasses.
This one’s on the third floor (second floor above the ground floor)
It has a wonderful Art Nouveau astrological…er, clock?
Finally, I really don’t know what to make of this, except that as a reader and writer of fantasy I like it a great deal!
The corner looks unfinished, except that it’s much too deliberate.
Let’s see… a farsighted red cow reading strange runes while being shooed by a magical broom? Did I get that right?