Inside - outside

View from inside the S-Bahn (train) to the station Dortmund, in the morning, December 2011

Linked to Weekend Reflections

Just clouds

Linked to Sky Watch Friday

On the road in Xinjiang

Xinjiang, China, May 2009

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the far west of China. We came from Pakistan by bus over the Khunjerab Pass to this region. It is so different from other parts in China.


Linked to ABC Wednesday todays letter is X. And linked to signs, signs. Signs with Uyghur and Chinese letters. So 190 km to where?

Focus

 f / 1,8; 1/320; 50 mm; ISO 100

Lights

December 2011 in Lünen

Seasons Greatings to you all.
Linked to Thursday Challenge

View from my window, December 2011

Linked to The Weekend in Black and White

Double-decker

Double-decker train the Regionalbahn, Dortmund Main Station, December 2011

7.23 in the morning.

Winter

Dead End, in German Sackgasse

It's been a very dry and warm November and December. Today we had the first snow.
Linked to ABC Wednesday, W is for Winter.
Linked to signs, signs

Hamm station

Hamm Hauptbahnhof (Main station), December 2011

Linked to Our World Tuesday

Shadow play

Playing "H2O", Helios Theater, Hamm, December 2011

Linked to the new Shadow Shot Sunday 2

H2O

Playing "H2O", Helios Theater, Hamm, December 2011

From the Helios Theater site:
Water - we seem to know everything about this element. But when we take a closer look at it, it’s full of surprises and it’s still a mystery to scientists up to the present day.




Water is enormous power, sputtering life and sparkling joy.



May it be as a melting ice–block, a shimmering fountain or as ascending damp, as a refreshing drink or a sweeping wave, as an element of sound or reflector of light, in this performance it always takes on new forms. It inspires performers and audience alike and generates a poetry that gives us an idea of the Wonder of Life.



It starts with one single drop…


Linked to Weekend Reflections

Dead tree

October 2011

Linked to The Weekend in Black and White

Running

My shoes, still wet

Rainy day
SLOW run

Wet feet
Perfect

I love to run, around one hours, two times a week, slowly, along the canal, with Hans.
What's your favorite exercise?

My participation for "Shoes" at Thursday Challenge

Yellowstone backcountry camping

Where is the bush toilet? Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, August 2009

On the shore of Heart Lake the campsite 8J6. Such a beautiful place in the Yellowstone backcountry with a stream for drinking water close by.
A map you find here: Heart Lake Backcountry Campsites
 

campsite 8J6

We stayed here two nights (and it was our last camp at this 12 day / 11 nights hiking trip). What an incredible scenery with wonderful sunsets over Mt. Sheridan.


And there was Silence (a previous post) with the lake in different light.

Andreas preparing the fire wood, the toilet sign on his right

A box toilet, in the middle of a meadow, behind the camp

The bear pole with some huge Grizzly claws

Thomas

Heart Lake with Mt. Sheridan

I love this place. I love wilderness. And this hiking was one of the best adventure I've ever had.

Linked to signs, signs and to Sky Watch Friday

Cape town scenery - Chapman's Peak Drive

The Atlantic near Cape Town, Chapmans Peak Drive, February 2011

A view from a very scenic road. The Chapman's Peak Drive is famous for it's beauty. We had a wonderful day. I love this view!

From Wikipedia:
Chapman's Peak is the name of a mountain on the western side of the Cape Peninsula, about 15 kilometres south of Cape Town, South Africa. It is opposite the inlet on which the town of Hout Bay is centred.


The western flank of the mountain falls sharply for hundreds of metres into the Atlantic Ocean. A spectacular road, known as Chapman's Peak Drive, hugs the near-vertical face of the mountain from Hout Bay to Noordhoek. Hacked out of the face of the mountain between 1915 and 1922, the road was at the time regarded as a major feat of engineering. Chapman's Peak Drive was closed in the 1990s, after a rockfall caused a death and a subsequent lawsuit, and subsequently reopened after being re-engineered to protect motorists from falling rocks. It was reopened in 2005 as a toll road. The road was again closed for a number of months beginning on 19 June 2008 "as a result of risk areas identified on the mountain above the road", but has since been reopened indefinitely

Linked to ABC Wednesday, todays letter is V.
Linked to Watery Wednesday and to Scenic Sunday.

The sound of water

"Playing H2O", Helios Theater, Hamm, December 2011

Listen to the sound of boiling water. Imagine what you can do with this element. Incredible good theater for children.
Linked to Our World Tuesday

What's going on?

December 2011

That is NOT the blog title I want to have. I have changed nothing. Blogger did.
Hopefully it will change back automatically.

Office at night

Lüntec office building in the technology park, Lünen, November 2011

Linked to The Weekend in Black and White

The Sun Wheel #2

The Sun Wheel at the World Heritage Zeche Zollverein, Essen, September 2007

Some more pics here at a previous post.

Linked to Sky Watch Friday and Straight Out of The Camera Sunday

Signs after the war

Mines! With our bikes we stayed on the road, for sure. Near Osijek, Croatia, October 2008

In Vukovar, Croatia

That is left from the Croation War of Independence.

It' s reality. And in some areas you face a very bad history and reality.

This is part of my travels too.

Linked to signs, signs

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Thank you for your visits!

I love libraries - 5

Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Dortmund, public library, December 2011

For an outside view on the hole building have a look at this post or here or here or at this post.
Linked to Our World Tuesday.

Blockheads

In Andreas' school, Lünen, November 2011

Linked to Mellow Yellow Monday

Thomas in action

October 2011

On the way back from Kindergarten. This photo was taken by my husband Hans.

I shoot in the morning

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof (Main Station), Dezember 2011

Linked to Weekend Reflections and Straight Out Of the Camera Sunday

Here we play

July 2011

Linked to The Weekend in Black and White

Festival sky

Kite Festival Drachenfest Lünen, October 2011

Linked to Sky Watch Friday

Don't walk on the rails

Dortmund, Main Station, this morning

Linked to signs, signs

Morning train

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof (main station), this morning

 On my way to work. I'm waiting for the S-Bahn (local train).

 Linked to ABC Wednesday, T is for train and train station.

Pakistani takeway

Lahore, Pakistan, March 2009

Linked to Mellow Yellow Monday.

And my first link to The Creativ Exchange.

Just create to create

In Dortmund, after some editing

A symbol from Lünen #2



Lüntec-Tower and office building in the technology park, Lünen, November 2011

Linked to The Weekend in Black and White. This shot in original color you find here. Which one do you like more?

A symbol from Lünen

Lüntec-Tower and office building in the technology park, Lünen, November 2011

I guess it is the most photographed building in town. And on my blog. The next post will show a black and white version.