Just trying to create something artsy from a slice of self-grown cucumber :-).

It’s a little garden in the flower :-).

If you’ve ever been in Mülheim, you’ve probably seen this: the highrise buildings in the center of the city. When they were built at the end of the 1970s, they were considered the pride and joy of the city and became a popular “landmark”, but I’ve always considered them a major eyesore which needs to be torn down. Nevertheless, more about them in the next few photos of the City Views series!

A completely different view of a tree.

The zinnias are amazing this year.

I found this fellow crawling around in the wine leaves – looks basically like a ladybug larvae, but it’s black and white! Does anyone know what this might be? Is there such a thing as a black and white ladybug?

Reproductive organs :-).

This is Mülheim’s old postoffice, built in 1896. It was still in use in the late 1970s, I still remember going in there when I was a kid. In 1979 or 1980 the city bought the building from the post, turning it first into a kind of community center in 1985 before it was turned into an art museum in 1994. The exterior remains largely unchanged, but there was once a kind of bell tower on the top right, whose remnants are still visible today. The fountain, which you can see in the foreground, is, however a completely different story which I’ll save for a later photo – there’s also a lot of history on the square the building is standing.

I think that’s a quite respectable size considering that the plant is only growing in a pot on the balcony!

It’s the first pumpkin we had in years – and it’s coming along fine!