Archive 15. February 2014

City Views #132: The Bridge

15.2.2014 von Guido · Category: Blog, City Views, Mülheim


This is one of the two pedestrian bridges crossing Mülheim’s Dickswall, one of the busiest streets of the city. This bridge connects our neighbourhood with the area where the shopping center, the postoffice and the central railway, bus and subway station is. Again, you can see one of the ubiquitous highrises in the background. There are stairs leading down to the bridge from the street above – before the bridge was built together with the highrises and the first incarnation of the shopping center, there was just a path going down to the Dickswall called the Bocksberg, a name that has stuck until today and has become the official name of the little street. I’ll post a view back from the bottom of the stairs tomorrow!

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The Blackbird Duck

15.2.2014 von Guido · Category: Birdspotting, Blog


I wondered where the flapping and splashing was coming from and then I saw this blackbird bathing and splashing in a rain puddle further down the backyard. Not as sharp and detailed as I would like it to be, but that’s all my camera is capable of in this low light and at that distance.

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Piercing the Sky

15.2.2014 von Guido · Category: Planespotting, Skywatching


Something unposted from November – it looked a little like Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier :-).

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Springflowers #12

15.2.2014 von Guido · Category: Blog, Flowers, Spring


More of the mystery flower. No wonder everything’s blooming around here, today it’s about 13°C!

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