Halfway through December and on the 17th there
were still some nice-looking Chrysanthemum blossoms!

The second leftover Moon photo from December 29 – and this one had some cracking craters!

This shot from December 31 is definitively the last bird photo from 2015 :-).

Some slightly stroppy Chrysanthemums from December 10.

For the 500th City Views entry, here’s a last photo from the 1990 batch: a view over Mülheim’s Tourainer Ring from the pedestrian bridge in the direction of the street where we live – you can see the bright buildings in the center and a bit to the left. This area looks slightly different today – where the greenery is on the left, there is now a whole new stretch of buildings that was constructed in the early 1990s.
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I have two Moon photos from last year left… this one from December 28 is more an excercise if it’s possible to make something out of a bunch of really foggy and cloudy shots. It somewhat worked.

The Magpies are still around too, although this one is from December 24. Today I saw several small birds fluttering around including the elusive long-tailed tits and some chaffinches, but unfortunately it was too dark to take decent photos – hopefully this is going to change soon.

From December 10 – the Chrysanthemums were still hanging on.

This is what Mülheim’s Rathausplatz used to look like in 1990, from an old photo I scanned together with the factory demolition images recently. It doesn’t look much different today from this perspective.
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The birds are very elusive this Winter, even though it has been relatively warm…