Some of the houses around here have been wonderfully renovated in almost medieval styles – the top floor of this one looks like it’s timber-framed.

Sometimes you can’t see the trees around here thorugh the forest of traffic signs!

I did this a couple of weeks ago, but I think this version is slightly better.
But they still haven’t openend and probably never will.

It’s impossible to get a clear shot of this nice house with a corner “tower” in the summer with the trees hiding it, but it looks very interesting in the winter. This photo could use some snow, though!

Something strange I found while going through the December photos…

I’m so seriously running out of current photos that I’ll have to resort to posting even a slightly unsharp ones like this. It’s from two weeks ago when it was still a bit warmer, but even now the temperatures are still above freezing and snow is nowhere in sight. One year ago we were completely snowed in…

Just two houses down on Mülheim’s Dickswall. I have no idea when these were built, but it looks like they might have survived the bombings – perhaps they’re from the 1920s or 1930s. It’s very hard to get any information about what was when built around here.

Can’t go without a flower, even if it’s an ex-flower!

That’s the last blackbird photo I’ve got for now. The tree is almost picked clean of berries!

I decided to re-start the City Views with a new series I’ll just call Architecture – basically just a collection of houses and architectural details from our neighbourhood. This house not far from where we live has always fascinated me – it seems that its roof was destroyed presumably in WWII and has never been rebuilt, leaving a strange gap in the row of houses.