Silly Daffodils, it’s just mid-February… nobody expected them to come out this early!

Something’s sprouting – I’m not sure if they’re going to be flowers or leaves!

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!

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.

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

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

More strange streetcorners I found in some unposted photos all the way back from 2004.

I didn’t even know if this shot would work in the low light and it almost didn’t –
I wish the foreground was sharper. I’ve got to try this one again when the sun is shining!

Okay, it’s not a flower, but it’s still strange to see leaves growing in February!

A little corner far east of Mülheim’s inner city right on the border to the green Rumbach Valley – the normal street really ends just ahead, becoming accessible only for residents and pedestrians.