The last photo of the bluetit in the rowan tree. This was a case of either filtering the noise out and destroying more detail or leaving the noise in – I chose the latter and while this image might not be technically perfect, it’s too good to throw it away because of the noise.

From exactly one month ago, November 13th.

This was once a flower, but I’m not even sure what it was :-).

One year ago in early December, we already had the first snowfall. It’s pretty cold now at the moment, but since it doesn’t look like it will snow anytime soon, here are some photos from December 7th. I had already posted some of these back then on the blog, but I recently reprocessed these and put them all in a dedicated gallery. This is only the first part of the re-done snow photos from last winter, there will be more soon.

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A tiny little bluetit surrounded by lots of breakfast, lunch and dinner :-).

A wall of colours :-).

This is actually more like an ex-flower, but it fits perfectly into the autumn scheme.

With this last quick shot of Mülheim’s Berliner Platz I think I’ve done my duty in representing this location. You can see the front entrance of the Sparkasse bank building here across the street – the round sign on top of it actually rotates and alternately shows the time and temperature on one side. It’s not a particularly good photo, taken with my first digital camera in April 2003, but the first one I found going through my old photos – in black and white it still looks decent, though.

I managed to capture some better photos of the bluetits cavoting around the streetside rowan tree, now they’re really snacking on the berries! It’s still not easy, but yesterday’s little bit of sunshine helped.

I miss these sights… but winter brings other sights!