Wordless Wednesday: jardin des sens
A small park for the blind, Besançon, France, June 2016.
Tag: Pelargonium
A small park for the blind, Besançon, France, June 2016.
Streifzug 3: on high
We were up there.
Looking down here.
Last week, we were in Vienna and climbed the south tower of St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
My husband loves climbing these high towers. I do not — being both a little afraid of heights and a little claustrophobic. However, lured by the promise of a great view, I almost always follow him up. And I always think, after about 30 steps, how this is absolutely the last tower I will ever climb. . . at least this year (I’ve climbed two this year). . . at least in this city.
The view from the watch room (343 steps up) was tremendous. A night watchman actually occupied the room until 1955. If he saw a fire in the city, he would ring the tower bells.
Looking southeast, I spotted this pretty courtyard garden and took a few pictures.
After the climb down, we went around the corner, looking for the Mozart House (Mozarthaus).
We went through a passageway off Singerstraße and found ourselves in the same courtyard seen from above.
It was not the Mozart House, but the seat of the Grand Master of the Order of the Teutonic Knights of St. Mary’s Hospital in Jerusalem (or Deutscher Orden).
The Order has been associated with this site since 1204. The present building dates from the second half of the 18th century.
Mozart did briefly live on the premises from March to May 1781 — and Johannes Brahms from 1863 to 1865.
From one window on the courtyard, you can get a peek into the Sala Terrena, a frescoed room next to the chapel and the oldest concert hall in Vienna.
Mozart played there, and it now hosts the Mozart Ensemble Wien several days a week.
(Streifzug means ‘foray,’ ‘ brief survey,’ or ‘ramble.’)
Life in gardens: at the window
Stongfjorden, Norway, ca. 1910, by Paul Stang, via Fylkesarkivet i (County Archives of) Sogn og Fjordane Commons on flickr.
I love the striped curtains — and those here.
The Sunday porch: geraniums
More properly called by their genus name, Pelargonium.
An enclosed front porch in Chamisal, New Mexico, July 1940, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Lee and his wife, Jean, spent two weeks in Chamisal and Peñasco documenting the lives of the towns’ Hispanic small farmers and ranchers. Both communities are located along the High Road to Taos, which begins in Santa Fe and crosses the high desert and forest of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
The area was the setting for the 1974 book The Milagro Beanfield War — as well as the filming location for the 1988 movie of the same name. Milagro was the first of a trilogy of novels by John Nichols about north central New Mexico. The second and third books were set in the fictional town of Chamisaville.
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