So many questions and thoughts...

Questions and (no) answers
I've been feeling a little blue and it started while I was under cover with the flu.
I don't really know what caused me to feel blue and I have snapped out of most of it but not all of it.
Is it winter never ending? (don't think so) or a phase in life? I don't have the answers.

If my 40 years-crisis started out a couple of years before 40 with wondering if I was too old for some things maybe it then turned into a sadness over time passed, time gone?
I've lived the first 42 years of my life and I contemplate a lot over them, how they were and why.
Childhood, youth, adulthood and my firstborn's life and the start of hubs's and my marriage and then moving away living in the south, it all needs to get its attention and it does!

Winter is all around.

Still I know it - it lurks....!

Little miss sunshine was very welcome when she paid us a visit!

Blue sky.

Starting to get well from the flu, I took the dog out for a sunny walk. The sky was blue and the sun was nothing short of gorgeous! We socialized with each other and really enjoyed each other's sweet company. 

Mr Funkie is particularly wonderful to spend time with, with his blooming personality that is happiness in the purest form!

Little did I realize that the snowman up there would scare my dear friend...

I got to feel happiness, in all of my blue gloominess!!

Lovely view up there.

Sweet miss ocean promised a summer coming up!

Mr Funkie discovered The Snowman.....

No! He would not get near it, at all!!!

Look at that scary thing?!?!!

This is as close as he got. He would not get near <3

The sun knows what she's doing!

There's nothing that sunshine won't make gorgeous just by touching it.

Communication is important, we always hear that. I have gotten good at it and I opened my mouth and told my husband that I need to get out of the house, need to go somewhere that I want to go, not only and ever where others want. 

My husband studies now, two full time educations at once, so we never get together since he always studies. But now I needed to go with him for coffee at one of my favourite places and I also needed to visit the beach. 

So I told him and I meant it and he got it!

Going for coffee here. Opted to have it indoors though...!

I managed to get a laugh or two also!

It was good for the soul, which is what I wanted and needed.

Easy on the eyes!

And there I am right now. I don't know why I'm a little blue, it's very out of character for me. At the same time analyzing life and time is essential in order to move forward in a intelligent way, in a balanced way and with brain and heart together. I hope I'll find more of my usual joyful happy-go-lucky ways but in the meantime this thoughtful and toned down version of me will have to do.

A new week is soon coming up. 

Let's make it kind and let's take time to think, to stay in the emotions and find the source. Let's also laugh - for it feels so good!

How to make lemonade, out of lemons...

So, I went all in for some lemonade this weekend!
How did I do? I'd say I did better than could be expected.

I learned that in order to be totally relaxed, having my mind on the right things instead of the wrong ones, I must be glued to my camera.
Finding beauty to capture with the lens is The Only Thing that allows me to feel butterflies, under certain extraordinary situations in life.
And when the things I do capture are my son, the dog, the husband or nature - I feel happiness in the moments.


Another way...
Another way to make lemonade out of lemons is to pick your grapes, smash them up real hard and boil them.
No other parallels to be drawn into some sort of real life intended. Not at all....

Smashing them up, real good.

Boiling them.

Why not make a stew at the same time, I ask you?

With a little luck the lemons turn out to sweet lemon(marmel)ade in the end.

Not caring how the kitchen looks, is liberating!

Saturday evening is here. The home is a wonderful place to be.

Magic in the sky, this week.

Yes, it sure is unbelievable!! Lemonade for sure.

And a new day dawns.

One should, without a doubt, be able to turn it in to something as beautiful.

Not only do I love birds, I envy them their freedom and their swooshing by, playfully!

A popsicle after school is never ever a bad idea.

Neither is baking!

And a third way
Sitting on the couch, computer in my lap, boy on the floor playing and just being together, watching an old Bond-movie from the eighties is another wonderful lemonade to make out of those sour lemons.
I'm just sayin'!

More amazing skies.

I fail to find the right words. But "awe" comes to mind and as previously stated: awe, is a good thing.

Yeah - they're still going very strong indeed!!

Sun was no stranger this week.

All living creatures seem to enjoy a little carpe diem.

And I am in love with October.

And a last one:
Being able to be enthusiastic is both my biggest pride and the least that's demanded in order for me to be in an acceptable mood. Blue, being non-acceptable.
This passed week and weekend I realized that if I can only be excited/enthused  for a second here and there, it still makes all the difference.
To see a pink sky, capture a leaf that's stunning. It fills me with a second of love and joy and as long as there's that I think I'll be OK.
And there was that. Always that.
The weekend offered quite a few of those moments, thankfully.

Lemonade.

Lemonade (being able to ignore it, I mean).

The Boy and I went out and found lemons...

... that we then turned into lemonade!

Monday's here.
I inhale deeply for the upcoming week. I know I will prevail in my intentions of making it a good one.
Bottom line: it's only up to me.

I wish you all the best!
Thanks for your thoughtful comments - they mean the world!