A little peice of Italy
A really annoying compeletly pointless and out-of-place peice of artwork. It just totally detracts. It was commissioned a few decades ago to be something to characterize the city of Salzburg by - a good use of tax money, right? The dude on the top is a nobody, the thing means nothing, and the whole thing is either a bad joke or should be imploded.
The Salburg Cathedral, erected in 774, allowed to burn by the corrupt prince-bishop in 1628, and reconstructed after WWII in 1959. 
Through a key-hole in the cemetery chapel
The Salzburg Cathedral
The chapel built into the side of the cliff over the cemetery.
St. Joseph's platz.
Legend is, this was a loaf of bread that turned to stone when a woman decided to stay home and bake her day's bread rather than go to Mass on Sunday.
I was trying to capture the beauty of these sunflowers. I have completely fallen in love with sunflowers since coming here. Orchids and roses are great, but sunflowers are supieror for me now. They are just so trademark of Austria. Every church has a vase of sunflowers somewhere. Fields are full of them. These particular ones had little piles of pollen at their feet, with continual shower of the golden stuff glimmering down ever so lightly and faintly.
This was the Franciscan Church of Our Lady. There is a series of ten altars in a semisircle behind the main altar, making it a rosary church. A cool concept, I think.
Mary, again, one for you: The city and farms around it are full of Halflinger Ponies!
Caitlain and I got excited over this on one of the buildings at the University of Salzburg. Cosmos and Damien at center, and St. Thomas, I believe to the left. Who the philosopher is we are still debating. We decided that we were going to do graduate work at this university together, in any case.
Amen, sister!
Everyone else took a picture of Mozart's birth-house, so i did too.
Austrians are proud of their beer, their milka, their redbull, and Croc shoes. This waitress is showing off her Austrianess.
Me, Liz, Caitlain, Christy, and Laura
Caitlain taking it in
The Imperial Gardens
Me and the grinning unicorn. Look familiar? It is if you have seen Sound of Music.
Again, a classic Sound of Music pose. What is funny is that most of the locals have no idea what the Sound of Music is, except that it is some movie that all the Americans that visit Salzburg buzz about.
And, yes, also in the famous musical.
The Gardens were amazing. We spent a long time just strolling.
We went to a Piano Concert. I don't remember the name of the dude who played - some famous old guy with amazingly expressionative eyebrows - that was about all I could see of him over the head of the person in front of me but that was all that needed seeing. He played Mozart and Beethoven peices. The Moonlight Sonata (!) and others. It was absolutely amazing. Just amazing. But afterwards everyone was talking music and i had no idea what they were talking about. Apparently it is some rare performance piano worth millions that has two extra keys just to show off. I am sure Elizabeth would know.
Afterwards we went to a gelati chop where I realized I should stay away from Italians. It is far to easy to fall in love with them. Two brothers greet you with a grin and a "Buon Giorno, Principessa" just like in my favorite movie Life is Beautiful and then they proceed to sing to you an Italian love song while scooping up the most amzing ice-cream you ever did taste in your life and handing it over to you. I mean, can you blame me? Gelato+Italian+singing=I love you. It can't be helped.
Just a bleary look out the bus window. Nothing special. It all looks like that.
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