You don't have to be good to be happy, so I thought I'd mix the theme with the day after Halloween. The illustration is from this year's St. Lou Fringe Festival in a show called Thee Wizard of Oz(es), a mashup of all the Broadway shows and movies. Other City Daily Photo members have a good cackle at https://citydailyphoto.org/category/theme-days/.
It's the day for another massive marketing ploy, but lots of people enjoy it. There is a huge outdoor party in our Maryland Plaza in the Central West End neighborhood. The costumes are outrageous and there are big prizes for the winners. This is a scene from last year. The weather look good tonight, my spine isn't too awful so I'm going to give it a shot. Results, I hope, to follow.
While in Vienna, we attended morning exercise at the Spanish Riding School with the Lipizzaner stallions. The main shows are sold out weeks in advance. No photos while the horses are in the arena, supposedly for their peace of mind. However, a walkway just behind goes by the stables. This one looks to be waiting for a sugar cube.
I admitted recently that I was getting confused about what saint goes with which cathedral, an easy thing to do in Europe. I'm confident, though, that this is St. Stephen's in Vienna. Although its twin steeples tower over the central city, it is hard to get an overview as it is crowded by neighboring buildings. One corner, though, collects afternoon sun.
Something special and a bit out of the way in Vienna. There is a somewhat smaller church in the central city known as the Minoritenkirche. It contains something remarkable. When Napoleon swung through town, he decided he wanted Leonardo's Last Supper there. The original in Milan wasn't portable - it's a fresco, egg tempera painted on wet plaster. So an Italian artist was commissioned to create a copy in mosaic - thousands and thousands ot tiny pieces only a couple of millimeters across.
Turns out I did have mild pneumonia. Getting better now, hoping to get out to shoot out big outdoor Halloween party Saturday night.
