It’s just Mülheim’s new (as in ‘built in the early 1980s’) postoffice, seen from the exit of the shopping center. The customer entrance is hidden behind the tree in the middle of the square, which is actually a parking lot. It’s such a familiar sight for me that it’s not something special, but when I came across this old photo from September 2003, I thought it looked good in black and white.

It looks like the Christmas Cactus will live up to its name – the second blossom batch is coming!

Another street leaf map from November, this time with a more mediterranean feel :-).

This looks more like spring to me, although I took this photo only two days ago – you can even see our christmas tree peeking in from the left! With almost 10°C, it’s unseasonably warm today, but much more grey and rainy than in this photo. White Christmas is unfortunately cancelled this year in our vicinity.

This is the ramp leading down to the tunnel of the bus station of Mülheim’s central station. I actually called it the post tunnel because it is located right next to the main postoffice, which is just to the left of this photo. The buildings you see in the background are a retirement home complex called the Sonnenhof which was built in the early 1990s together with the pedestrian bridge spanning the Tourainer Ring. On the right is one of the ever-present highrise buildings, and just right behind me is the shopping center. I discovered this shot from May 2003 when I was going through the old photos and loved all the angles and lines in this perspective.

I’m not sure about this colour, but I’ll just call it peach – a sunset from Monday.

This branch is often occupied either by a crow or a pigeon – must be a great view from up there!

Another leaf streetmap, this time it’s the dried and cracked desert edition :-).

This is the other side of Mülheim’s central railway station and although this photo was taken ten years ago, it still looks about the same – which means, I’m sorry to say,  pretty shabby. It’s not a nice corner of the city and while the entrance to the station, where the S (for S-Bahn) sign is visible, has been extensively renovated now, the outside and the underpass of the railway bridge at the right still do not look very inviting. The street bridge on the top left will be torn down next year and supposedly then the whole location will be completely remodeled, but I wouldn’t bet on it.  This may be one of the worst views of our city that I have shown so far, but I think even those perspectives need to be seen.

The snackbar is now open for business! We wanted to get a bird feeder for a long time, but never found a really good one. When I saw this one at Amazon, we just had to get it – it only arrived a couple of days ago and today we had the right weather to finally “install” it. Now only the birds have to find out about it!