A photo I processed, but for some reason never posted: this is the view of Mülheim’s Kaiserplatz (literally Emperor’s Plaza!) from the pedestrian bridge crossing the end of the Dickswall. It’s an older photo from 2005, but it still looks about the same today.

More red roses going crazy in July :-).

Slightly out of focus pink rose.

Yellow rosebush explosion – how many blossoms are in there?

In January, I shared a couple of older photos of my piano, but now I’ve taken some new ones which I processed in colour this time. It’s an Ibach upright piano originally built in 1906 with the older mechanic type, which has the dampeners above the hammers – more on that in the next days. This piano was originally given to my mother by her grandfather in 1959, who found it in an old military bunker and when I started playing piano in the early 1990s, it was still in great shape and just needed tuning and some refurbishments on the mechanic. Today it’s no beauty on the outside because it was painted partly yellow in the 1970s, but it still sounds gorgeous except three slightly detuned keys (the ones which got new strings in the 1990s) which need to be fixed. The keys have yellowed somewhat (slightly exaggerated here because of the warm colour timing) and were probably still made out of ivory, but overall the keyboard looks very good and, above all, plays well!

Some of the smaller tomatoes were really waiting for some more sun at the beginning of September!

Pumpkin blossoms were everywhere at the start of July!

Call it a viaduct or an embankment, this is where the main railway line of our region bisects our city in the middle and where it actually splits off into two different lines to the West, one of which is unused today. Like the bridge directly to the right it looks really old and grungy, but the stones in the walls have probably historic value.

The floral football opens…

Roses and more roses.