Joy

A walk behind the dunes in full sun, blue sky and oh, I should better shut up. I feel so guilty that I am having such nice weather all the time, while so many people out there are struggling with the harshest winter conditions.
Well, we cannot choose the weather, we can only choose places where we want to live. And had I known consciously, what nice places there are out there, I would probably have tried to leave Hamburg with its wet, cool grey drizzle weather a bit earlier than I did.

This walk made me come home with a ton of beautiful pictures, but I choose this one, as I love action shots. Maggie found a wonderful playmate and they chased each other for nearly half an hour, until Maggie was totally pooped. She first laid down to catch her breath, while the much younger black girl tried to incite her to more playing. Then Maggie picked up a piece of wood to "save her face" and be a little quieter, pretending that it was necessary to carry and protect this...