One more of the yellow mystery flowers.

The Lilies from last year came back too after sleeping over the winter in a flowerbox.

Six humans hurtling through space and leaving a trail of light on my camera sensor – with many greetings to Alexander Gerst, who is one of the five Astronauts on the International Space Station. This second attempt of capturing the ISS tonight at about 00:14am CEST from Mülheim, Germany was more successful than the first, which was much too bright too see anything – we still saw the station on both occasions and will at least once, if not twice more this night! This image is almost unaltered from the original and it would have been even more perfect if the exposure time was long enough for the station to vanish ehind the trees, but this is still a good one. The Camera was, as usual, my trusty Canon Powershot S5 running CHDK for the 128-second long exposure.

This is a panorama of Mülheim’s main railway station seen from the square in front of its building, which is actually kind of wedge-shaped between the active line you see in this direction and the older, now disused and partially dismantled line. The building and the underpass below the tracks have been extensively renovated recently, but as you can see the top of the platform still looks very 1950s. It’s still not a pretty place to arrive and yes, this railway station still does not have toilet facilities anywhere – for that, you have to go, or run as it may be, a couple of hundred meters into the adjacent shopping center, which is behind me in this photo. There are some minor stitching errors in this panorama which I wasn’t able to fix without a lot of effort, but I just wanted to show this to get the previous photos in a bit of perspective.

This is definitively the last Lilac photo for this year, but I still wish I had taken more.

Zucchini Alert!

A Ladybug larvae hard at work becoming a real Ladybug.

Even more Lilac from late April, I didn’t even remember I processed so many :-).

Pink Rose Duet.

The central meeting point :-).