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Sometime in 2012 I posted a picture of this plant with my old handycam.

A little while later I bought a Sony digicam with a better lens and macro option. The plant grows in our bathroom. It blossoms on average every second year. 

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Lindenstraße, facing West just before 5 p.m.

I love Cologne for its blinding light, when the sun is hanging just above the roofs. Today we had our first sidewalk-coffee from "Formula Uno", a famous Italian Coffeeshop in the South City. For the first time this year it's alomost T-Shirt weather.

Anniversary

I cut this sculpture in the winter of 1999/2000 from furtree. At that time I was a volunteer for Action Reconiliation Sign for Peace e.V. During the last 13 years it sometimes stood outside, sometimes inside. It was grown over by bushes. Sometimes it's taken inside for winter, sometimes not. Birds shit on its head, it grows darker and more lively every year. It's good to meet old friends.

A hundred years ago today Norway accepted women's suffrage - women's right to vote. Norway passed the law as second country in Europe after Finnland. Congratulations!

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Yellow and Green.

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Reaching arms into the sky

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Spring is coming.

(Spring means Feather)

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Coffeecup, taking a moment

Couldn't he? - Picture Of The Day #47 reloaded

I'm a huge fan of Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. And specially of Calvin's craftmanship regarding snowmen. Here's great collection of wintery strips...

All day today snow fell in Cologne. I crossed the city by bike - I like riding across parks in the snow and I was thinking how as a child I always wished it to snow, so we could ride a sled or ... build a snowman. But it hardly ever snowed in my childhood - and if, it melted right away, which is why I'm probably among the top 100 world's lousiest snowman builders. Nothing like Calvin...

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So blue the was the sky last week...

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Calvin couldn't have done it better.

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Mosaic at Bürgerzentrum Ehrenfeld

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This sign says: "Standing and sitting forbidden in the entrance area" - It doesn't say anything about dancing.

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Let's live in reality for a week!

Thinking 2013

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Wallpainting at Vogelsanger Straße / Piusstraße.

This one looks a bit spooky, no?

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When I look at this one for a while I find it a bit sad.

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"Faith" - I love passing by this one. In every shape of daylight it looks different.

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1. The grey days are beginning.
2. A group of pigeons has declared the roof of the mosque home already. I plan to get pictures of them one day.

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Probably the last summer night on the eastern bank of the Rhine.

We don't really mind kitsch now, do we?

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Nightfever.