beach day

A couple of photos from our day at the beach before the solstice party.



Kale growing wild on the Baltic Sea beach:


Sorry about the watermark in all of these, I had originally considered posting them on my photo blog, but decided to put them here instead.
There’ll be a video (of course) but it’ll be a while before I get it finished.
In other news, I might have fallen off my horse on Sunday and bruised my tail bone and spent two days on the couch with ice packs. Guess it had to happen after riding the little bugger for five years. Thankfully the icepacks worked a little miracle and I’m already up and not exactly running but working again 🙂
And pining for the beach.

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midsummer weekend

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Our solstice weekend was spent near the Danish border in the north of Germany. My dad and his girlfriend celebrated their joint 60th birthdays with a big garden party, complete with a midsummer bonfire and singing.




We left late on thursday for the long drive north, spent friday at a beach at the Baltic Sea and saturday at the party before heading back south for a near 9 hour drive on sunday.
Deeply inhaling the salty sea air mixed with wood smoke from a crackling fire outside has recharged my batteries as only sea and fire can do. I needed it so much not only mentally but physically as well. I needed the step back, asking myself what the hell was I thinking overworking myself like I did in the last few weeks. Being a highly sensitive person overexerting myself is dangerously easy and I’m known to come home crying from exhaustion on a hard day. Unfortunately I’m too far from the sea to have its healing powers readily available! Having said this, I’m taking it easy this week, taking my time catching up on blogs and comments, sorting through the photos from last weekend and playing with the video sequences and of course, not working so long and hard. Have a good week!