I took the following photo the other day while wandering around Tübingen after one of our periodic rain “stormlets”:

Orange on the side, Tübingen

“Stormlet” is my new term for those tiny rainstorms that I blogged about last month. You know, the ones where the rain comes along quite suddenly, and then there’s a downpour that lasts for only a few minutes, and then the sun comes, peering through scattered white clouds to reveal a hint of a blue sky.

I explain this only to explain why there’s a puddle in the middle of a street that otherwise looks dry  —  it hadn’t rained for that long that day, so the main part of the street was able to dry off rather quickly. But, this nice puddle that stuck around for a while had an interesting reflection of one of the many half-timbered buildings in the Altstadt (“old city”) part of Tübingen.

Of course, my description does reveal that it’s a street, not a wall — did you think it was a wall with a window when you first glanced at that photo? I like the illusion that turning this photo on its side creates, both with the street, and the perspective on that house in the reflection. Fun.

BTW, that  orange peel is an anomaly here on the streets of Tübingen. In general, the streets here are kept quite clean, so there’s rarely trash like that in the middle of the street.  But when I took the picture, I deliberately left the peel in the framing with the reflection. I actually had the thought at the time that it might be interesting to see what happened if I  turned the whole scene — street, puddle, orange and all — on its side. So I did. 😉