Last photo of the series for now – here’s a front view of my 1906 Ibach piano. As you can see, it’s partly painted yellow and pretty banged up on the exterior, but that doesn’t hurt the insides, which are in very good shape. My long-term plan is to varnish the black parts properly and just leave the yellow like it is – and to get it properly tuned again. It’s actually very well playable at the moment if you avoid the three detuned keys, so I think I can call myself very fortunate to have this great instrument.

It seemed to like the rain :-).

I spotted this little Robin sitting on the balcony rail next to mine this afternoon in the rain.

I totally forgot that there are still some more photos in the Summer Flowers series,
meaning all those flowers growing not on our balconies :-).

The Sunflower on a wet day :-).

To get the City Views going again, here’s some destruction: where Mülheim’s big RWE Sporthalle is standing today (right next to the previously often mentioned supermarket parking lot!) there was once another, smaller gym hall until it was demolished in 2003. Originally it was called Carl-Diem-Halle, but then someone found out that Mr. Diem had not been as innocent as previously presumed during the Nazi regime and the name was changed to Ruhr-Sporthalle. I often had sports class in that hall when I was in school – it was very uncomfortable and stuffy in there, so when they started to tear the place down in 2003 I was glad to have my very first digital camera at hand to take a few photos, which I’ve dug out again for a little series.

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