May Random #2

Not necessarily chronologically the second part of May, because procrastinating also has the blessed side effect of creating confusion, and I might have mixed up the folders just a little. The essence is the same of course- it’s spring, I drink coffee here and there and occasionally take sweeping shots of a Danube skyline, because…

Vienna in April

Vienna is the city I photographed most bar Budapest and my hometown. It is of course closest of all major European capitals- just three hours ride on the MÁV/ÖBB Shinkansen through greening fields and wind turbines. Which I insist on calling windmills, for if Don Quijote saw monsters where there were windmills, I see windmills…

My Own Private Sakura

Of course everybody’s got a camera these days, or at least a smart phone with one, so the Internet is aflood with yay-blossoms-blooming-trees-spring-is-here-yay shots.I have of course already admitted to being week minded enough to not resist a pretty flower, but these blooms are most special to me, because they come from my grandmother’s garden. …

First Day of Spring

On which it is settled that there is a quiet daffodil crisis unfolding in Budapest (there are much less than in other years, and logically, they’re more expensive), but the trees on Gellért hill are blooming slightly ahead of schedule.   The Várkert Bazár is pretty in theory, but still flawed in practice. There are…