Prelude to a duet :-).

It’s been some time since I saw one of those in the neighbourhood!

About a week ago, all the flowers came out. Now it’s freezing at night again!

Mülheim’s famous Casino – I’ve posted a photo of it before from the archives, but this is a fresh one from last month. I’ve since found out that this was built originally in 1841 by the Casino Society who used it as a sort of club house – the building has a ballroom, several club rooms, a bowling alley and a wine cellar! But it has actually been used by the protestant church as a community center since it was sold by the Casino Society in 1940 and there’s apparently also a music school located in some of its rooms today. It’s mostly surrounded by modern buildings today at the West end of the inner city near the riverfront, but in the background you can see one of the few surviving timber-framed houses.
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Another one against the light.

Some front yards in the neighbourhood are beginning to blossom!

This corner house looked really great and really surprised me because I’ve never been in this part of the city before. I haven’t been able to find out how old it exactly is, but it seems to be from the 1950s rather than from the 1920s because it only shows up in old aerial photographs after WWII.
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A sunny side view – actually it wasn’t that sunny, but long exposures often work wonders!

I found two interesting older houses in a part of the city I haven’t visited for a long time. This was one of them and I actually noticed it because of its unusual paint job – it’s blue and white, which you can of course only see in the colour version linked below.
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