From only last week, the final flower of this year – I’ve finally run out!

I picked out a few unposted photos for the City Views series to last until the beginning of next week. This is the beginning of Mülheim’s Friedrichstrasse right after the Berliner Platz.  In the background you can see the huge hospital building looming over the city and the last building before the road goes around the corner is the famous Hotel Handelshof. The house was built in 1906 and was originally a sort of community center of the protestant church, but was turned into a hotel in the 1930s and has been in the hands of the same family for three generations. Someday I really have to take a better photo of the building, but it’s in a corner of the city I rarely get to today. This photo was taken in September 2003, but it should look about the same today.

One of our resident wood pigeons enjoying a rare bit of sunshine, perching high in the maple tree.

This is actually more a winter flower, since I took this on December 10th!

This was not actually an accident, but a little bit of experimentation with bokeh :-).

Slightly wet and bedraggled, but still blooming – in mid-November!

I completely forgot that I had made another timelapse video last week, on the afternoon before the big storm. Watch out for the occasional bird zipping through and the airplane contrail at about 0:45!

Sometimes a confused autofocus can produce nice stuff :-).

This is the last one, I’ve finally run out of colours!

This looks like a clematis, but I’m not sure if it really is one!