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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Flea Market, the Roman Way
Rome, Italy
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#VienneseEscapes #UrbanGaze
#HumansofBluesky
Next to ancient columns, on the steps of a church, three nuns offering trinkets.
March 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Dachstein Glacier in the Evening Light
View from the Shores of Lake Gosau
Salzkammergut, Upper Austria
Image © Merisi Vienna
#Alps #GoldenHour #Dachstein #Glacier
#VienneseEscapes #Mountains #Gosau
June 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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THE BUS STOPS HERE
Zion National Park
Utah, USA
#MountainMonday #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyMonday #VienneseEscapes #Blue #Zion #NationalParks
A person walking towards a bus stop in the middle of a valley, framed by greenery and beyond rocky mountains.
July 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
August in #Tyrol, #Austria
Image © Merisi Vienna
#VienneseEscapes #coloraday #bluetue
#eastcoastkin #photography #scape #Mountains
A green mountain valley, with a couple of farm buildings and a range of wooded mountains, with another range of higher peaks above the tree line beyond.
August 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Bad Ischl on a Rainy Morning in July
Salzkammergut (Austrian Lake District)
Upper Austria
Image © Merisi Vienna
#BadIschl #VienneseEscapes #Salzkammergut
#UpperAustria #Austria #AustrianLakeDistrict
#Photography #EastCoastKin #Rain #Stunday
Historical buildings, pedestrians carrying umbrellas, in the forefront a light green bridge. Wet street, falling rain.
July 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Roses and Blue Sky
Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Image © Merisi Vienna

#EastCoastKin #BlueSkyMonday
#Roses #Bloomscrolling #VienneseEscapes
A garden with small and large trees, red and orange roses to the right, to the left, further back, a leaning statue.
September 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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⭐ Good Night, Good People Everywhere! 🌙

VIENNESE ESCAPES
Marina di Pisa
Tuscany, Italy
17 Oct 2008 © Merisi Vienna
#eastcoastkin #photography
#VienneseEscapes
#BlueSkyArtShow #Clouds
Big sky with white cloud ships, a large fishing net on the Tuscan Coast.
February 1, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPE
Heading to Venice,
will you join me?
Image © Merisi Vienna
#VienneseEscapes #Venice #Italy
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#ClassicMono #Monochrome
A gondola, still moored at a Venetian canal; a gondoliere working at untying the knot. Reflections on the water, a fence along the canal.
December 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
The Pigeon Whisperer
Monastero Agostiniano
Via dei Santi Quattro, Rome, Italy
Image © Merisi Vienna

#EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze
#photography #streetphotography
#PhotographersUnited #ArtChallenges #HumansofBluesky
#VienneseEscapes #Travel #Rome #Art
A gentleman in suit and tie sitting on a stone bench at the wall of a monastery near the Colosseum, feeding pigeons.
July 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
"Hold Fast to Dreams" *
Venetian Glass Reflections
Venice, Italy
Image 2008 © Merisi Vienna
#eastcoastkin #photography
#VienneseEscapes #Venice #Glass
#Reflections #monochrome #blackandwhite
* Langston Hughes
Several upside-down wine glasses reflecting Venetian palaces.
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
On the Ides of March
Sunday Morning in Via Margutta, Rome
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#VienneseEscapes
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A quiet Roman street, buildings in typical terracotta shades, with pots of greenery in front of entrances and trees hanging over garden walls.
March 15, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Claudy Morning Lakeview from Spitzvilla
On the shores of Traunsee
Traunkirchen, Upper Austria
Image @ Merisi Vienna

#EastCoastKin #VienneseEscapes #Traunsee #Traunkirchen #UpperAustria #Travel #SpitzVilla #Lakes #Salzkammergut
Lake with reeds and a view of a castle and mountains beyond.
July 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE
Two Readers Meeting for Coffee
Cambridge, UK
Image © Merisi Vienna
#coffee #Cambridge #VienneseEscapes
#DrinkingCoffeeElsewhere #EastCoastKin #Books
Two cups of coffee and two books on a round table in a black and white image.
July 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Azalea Time at the Spanish Steps
Rome Italy
#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography
#PhotographersofBlueSky #VienneseEscapes
#PalacesandGardens #UpstairsDownstairs
#Scape #BloomScrolling #UrbanGaze
A stone pillar topped by a globe with a carved fleur-de-lis, a row of pink azaleas placed on the steps leading up to Piazza Trinità dei Monti.
March 19, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Main Square Fountain Pool
Watching the bubbling water soothes the soul
Mistelbach, Lower Austria
Image © Merisi Vienna

#EastCoastKin #photography
#ColorADay #BlueTue #SleepySep
#VienneseEscapes
A bubbly fountain creates circles in the basin of blue water, small yellow leaves floating on the surface.
September 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Lake Neusiedl
Burgenland
An hour's drive from Vienna
2007 Image © Merisi Vienna
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#Neusiedl #Neusiedlersee #Boat
#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin
#VienneseEscapes
An old light green boat, worse for the wear, filled partially with water, seemingly left to rot by the lake, on light blue water and reeds.
July 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Old Farmhouse Window
Open-Air Museum Niedersulz, Lower Austria
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EASTCOASTKIN #PHOTOGRAPHY
#WindowsOnWednesday #VienneseEscapes
A window, painted light green, reflecting the greenery outside, framed by green and yellowing leaves of a tree outside.
September 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Where to?
Two friends in Venice, Italy
1 July 2009 © Merisi Vienna
#eastcoastkin
#humansofbluesky
#photography #VienneseEscapes
Two women, both wearing black skirts, one an emerald green, the other a red polo-shirt, a beige resp. a black bag, walking along a canal on a sunny day in July.
January 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Summer Life at Erlaufsee
Styria and Lower Austria
Image © Merisi Vienna
#VienneseEscapes #Austria #EastCoastKin
#Summer #Styria #LowerAustria #Scape
#Sommerfrische #Vacation #Beachlife #Lakes
Lakeside beach, playground, children at play, the water reflects the green wooded hills on the other side of the lake.
July 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Green House and Red Telephone Kiosk
Bad Ischl, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #SirGilesGilbertScott
#TelephoneKiosk #VienneseEscapes
#WednesdayWindows #WindowsOnWednesday
#photography #PhotographersUnited
#Travel #Salzkammergut
A light green house with old-fashioned windows, shops on the ground floor and a British publish telephone kiosk in the square in front of the building. To the left, a white hydrangea is blooming profusely.
July 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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VIENNESE ESCAPES
Bruno Non C'è!
Favorite Coffee Bar in Rome
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography
#coffee #PhotographersofBlueSky
#VienneseEscapes
A Roman coffee bar captured from above. A coffee drinker at the counter is checking the mobile phone. The barista is busy at work. Bruno is not at work today.
March 18, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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🌙 Safe and Peaceful Night, Good People Everywhere! 🌙

VIENNESE ESCAPES
Azalea Time at the Spanish Steps
Rome, Italy
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography
#VienneseEscapes
#PalacesandGardens #UpstairsDownstairs
#Scape #BloomScrolling #UrbanGaze
#HumansOfBlueSky #ClassicMono
A black and white photograph of the Spanish Steps decorated with many large pots of Azaleas and people walking up and down.
March 19, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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SUMMER AFTERNOON
Fano, Le Marche, Italy

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon;
to me those have always been
the two most beautiful words
in the English language."
Henry James

#MerisiVienna #Italy #EastCoastKin #Photography
#Summer #LeMarche #VienneseEscapes
A shaded row of stores and home entrances, lit by the golden late afternoon light in a square in a small town by the Adriatic Sea, Fano (Umbria, Italy).
September 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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⭐ Good Night, Good People Everywhere! 🌙

VIENNESE ESCAPES
Endless Summer
Zion National Park, Utah, USA
Image © Merisi Vienna
#RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin
#Photography #Art #VienneseEscapes
#Zion #NationalPark
A small torrent running through a rock landscape, in the water two people sitting on rocks. On the far side of the water, large trees spend shade.
August 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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MORNING BY THE LAKE
Out on the open water the lake already glitters
in myriads of greens and blues,
a lone sailboat's still anchored near the shore.
Lake Attersee, where Gustav Klimt's summered
Upper Austria #MountainMonday #EastCoastKin
#Klimt #Attersee #BlueSkyMonday #VienneseEscapes
#Blue
A white sailboat in a sea of blue water, on the horizon hills and mountains.
July 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM