Geranium buds at the beginning of October? Silly plant :-).

Eight photos of Mülheim’s Kaiserplatz are really enough, so this is the last one for now – until I find some older photos in the archives. With this one, I just want to show that even on a high-traffic crossing there are trees in this city! Again you can see the tunnel exit and the lower entrance of the Forum here – and in the far left corner is the Koffer-Ecke (literally Luggage Corner), one of the oldest surviving shops outside here in the inner city outside of the shopping mall.

A throwaway image for a photographic Music Monday. This is neither very sharp or in good quality, but while trying to get some decent shots of my e-guitar, this happened and I loved the strange multiplying effect. And yes, it says Cheri on the headstock – it’s a South Korean copy of a Fender Stratocaster, but a good one. The rumours are that the company that made them originally called them Chevy but got into hot trademark water with a certain American car manufacturer, so they had to settle for Cheri or Chery. These guitars were quite popular in Europe in the early 1990s, mine is from 1992 and I still play it regularly :-).

Going all minimalist and artsy for #MacroMonday over on Google+ :-).

One more yellow rose from the beginning of October after the somewhat sad sunflower photo.

All things must pass – the sunflower was blooming for almost three weeks.

Crossing Mülheim’s Kaiserplatz and looking in the direction of the tunnel beneath the pedestrian zone. It was built in 1986 during a heavy remodeling of the Schloßstraße, putting the last 100 meters of the Eppinghofer Strasse underground. This is the companion shot to the one I showed in City Views #74 a couple of days ago days ago, which I took from the top of the tunnel. It may be more an underpass than a tunnel, but it is long enough to be flooded when it’s rainly heavily, which happens more often than you can imagine. If you don’t want to cross the street here, you can also take a detour and go up to the Kurt-Schumacher-Platz and enter the shopping mall through the top entrance, like I showed in #23 back in August.

Just clouds and trees. And a hint of sun :-).

Rusty, green and blue – with only a little HDR help.

One last closeup.