This is a followup of sorts to my
post about being an online ambassador for Natchez. Today I ran across an alert for someone visiting Natchez. When I clicked on it, I was taken to
Southern Lagniappe - a blog by an unbelievable photographer from Vicksburg. She also has another
site with nothing but photographs, which are the most beautiful photographs of Mississippi I have ever seen. I emailed her to tell her how impressed I was. I also posted a link to her photographs on my
facebook page. They were a big hit - several of my friends posted them to their pages. Interestingly, while I was singing her praises, she was here in Natchez visiting for the day.
While I was checking out her blog, I noticed that one of her favorite blogs was
Merisi's Vienna for Beginners. Those who know me know that my daughter and her family live in Vienna. I have visited that city a few times, and now I love all things Vienna. So of course, I had to go to this blog. More awesome photographs - with poetic snippets of text. They've been appropriately described as "virtual postcards from Vienna". The text for this picture is
Falling in Love
with lavender
in the midst
of a winter storm
In the gardens of
Palais Liechtenstein
8 January 2010
I've emailed and "talked" with this artist as well. Of course, I'm putting my family in touch with her, since she's obviously a fascinating person.
The photographs for both of these sites are copyrighted, and I have copied them with the artists' permissions.
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Good morning from Vienna!
I don't know how to thank you adequately for your kind words about my blog. I feel truly honored, thank you so much! Maybe we can have a coffee somewhere in Vienne when you next visit?
The world is small indeed: Southern Lagniappe is one of my favorite blogs and - to close to circle - would you believe that just yesterday I commented there about a certain visitor from Natchez?
I came upon the world of blogging by sheer accident: Not wanting to stuff my friends' mailboxes with my daily photo updates from Vienna, I decided to put the pictures on a blog instead (with the help of my oldest, I was not even able to upload pictures back then!). I have had my doubts and trials over the four years I have continued to post a daily blog, but with the encouragement of generously kind visitors like you I have managed to stay the course. I shall be in debt forever with all you kind souls out there!
Thank you again and to many more visits here and there in the future,
Merisi
P.S.:
My blog is but an artistic outlet for me, most days the product of spur of the moment ideas about how to use my most rencent images. I usually start out with a picture or two, but what really gets published is more often than not entirely different from what I set out to do. I cherish the days when I can give my blog a bit more attention, usually I just have the time to show up and put online whatever the amount of time available allows me.
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