A look up our favourite Maple tree in mid-October, helped with a little HDR magic :-).

A closeup of the strangely spirally center of a Mallow :-).

Now that we’ve been up Mülheim’s Kaiserstrasse there’s still the Kaiserplatz to look at. Before we look closer at the intersection joining four of the city’s busiest streets, here’s another look up the Kaiserstrasse from the crossing itself. It’s an older photo from May 2004, but it looks still the same today – a typical Mülheim inner city street scene.

The swarm from four days ago, but we saw (and photographed!) some even more spectacular today.

Maybe the HDR is a little over the top, but that’s what it really looks like!

Another one of the Mallows from the beginning of October.

Almost at the top of Mülheim’s Kaiserstrasse, you can see a strange looking building between the houses on the west side. It’s in fact the gym hall of the Mülheimer Turngemeinde 1856 e.V – a gymnastics club which was supposedly founded 157 years ago, but this building is, of course, much newer. I’ve always found it rather amusing that there’s also a restaurant named Zum Turnverein in the same building – presumably to replenish the fat you’ve burned off previously in the gym! :-)

I just realized that I had not posted any Moon photos since August, so here’s today’s late afternoon Moon!

One of our resident blackbirds giving me the eye :-).

Bit blurry in the middle, the leaves kept on moving :-).