I think I forgot to post this one a while back… it’s not easy taking a good photo of a bee
(or probably a wasp in this case) when it’s always crawling half into the flowers :-).

I think I think may be able to bring the series up to 100, but then I’ll stop :-).

The other side of the Mousetrap – you can clearly see how the tunnel got its name!

It’s not the green hornet, but the first metallic-green fly I’ve seen this year!

I noticed that I’ve only shown the yellow roses in closeups, but never the entire rosebush – it looks a little scrappy, but there are so many blossoms! And I think there are still some more off to the right.

Some roses resting on stone.

Recently it occured to me that I had not posted any photos of my home town for a long time and when a fellow photographer on Google+, Justin Hill, mentioned that we sometimes take our city for granted and become oblivious of our surroundings, I decided to finally share some more images of Mülheim. These will be partly new and partly from the archives – the City Views series starts today with The Mousetrap (really Mausefalle in German), a little pedestrian tunnel directly beside one of the two churches in the old inner city.

I think I spotted one of the young blackbirds yesterday – it could be one of the hatchlings from last month!

There are so many roses on the bush, some of them seem to be hiding!

Okay, that’s really the last shot of the little critters – bye-bye! :-)