Another view of the Berliner Platz Kreuzung here in Mülheim, this time looking more to the west – if you follow this road, you are going to cross the bridge over the river. On the left, you can see the entrance to the temple of money a.k.a. the Sparkasse bank building which is standing on the actual Berliner Platz – more about this later. There are actually a couple of historic photos from the 1960s of this view in our archives, but I first need to rescan these from the original slides, so I’ll have to show them at a later point. But this photo is almost as historic, as it was taken in Autumn 2003 with my first little digicam!

At the foothills of the big chili tree :-).

Memories of Zinnias…

More roses for the 100th anniversary of the Balcony Flowers :-)..

It’s been a while since the last entry of the City Views series, so let’s change venues and jump right into the busy parts of the town. This is the intersection of the Leineweberstrasse and Friederich-Ebert-Strasse at the west end of the inner city. If you go left, you end up on the Schlossbrücke crossing the river and going right you will come close to the shopping mall and the highrises. I’m not sure if the building with the rounded roof has a special name, but it’s 1950s architecture is one of the most famous views in this area. Further down you can see the old Kaufhof department store, which was still open when I took this photo in 2004 – today it’s history. In the background is the town hall with its unmistakable tower. The Berliner Platz is actually just off to the left, but since the whole area doesn’t have a special name the intersection is often referred to as the Kreuzung am Berliner Platz.

Summer, sun and tomatoes – actually on September 6th!

I’ll have to post at least two of the series each day, otherwise I’ll never catch up!
Here’s the return of the red rose from the end of August.

Middle of the Mallow.

A tiny little spider, almost translucent, sitting on a freshly picked cucumber.

Signs are posted just in case something looks too weird :-).