Zinnia #2 :-).

Well, state of the art in 1995 anyway – it’s the processor from my first PC! One thing hasn’t changed in almost twenty years: those Windows logos are still plastered everywhere :-).

A Zinnia again, of course :-).

I actually did some tree photography this summer and autumn, but for some reason I got so behind with processing that I didn’t post as much of it as I wanted. But here’s a photo of our favourite maple tree from below that I just took this afternoon!

The first white Cactus Flower was just about to burst open!

A cucumber blossom for a change! And just a reminder that those Balcony Flower photos are all still from July – you can always check the actual date a photo was taken by looking at the filename.

Now we come to the exciting bit of the demolition on Mülheim’s Viktoriaplatz. The next few photos were taken on the early evening of January 10th, 2008 when the work had to be halted – a big chunk of wall threatened to fall onto the adjacent house and was barely stopped by the clamp of the excavator! You can still see the big machine holding the chunk here – the scaffolding was already in danger of collapsing and there was actually some damage to the other house. But that’s not half of the trouble that started on this day – to be continued in the next photo :-).

What was left of the SPARKASSE sign during the demolition of the old bank building on Mülheim’s Viktoriaplatz on January 4th, 2008. This simply warranted a closeup!

A classic Oxeye Daisy for number 500.

Some old Commodore chips from my C64 and Amiga that didn’t stand the test of time and had to be replaced… the 8580 was the SID sound chip from my original C64-II, the 8372A was the Amiga Angus chip responsible for memory management and other stuff and the 8362R8 was the Amiga Denise graphics chip. I kept the broken ones when they were replaced with new chips, fortunately almost everything was socketed back then!