║today my way║: April 2006

Bournemouth is really a tourist town with plenty to see and even more to come back to the second time round. And as a seaside place you can expect to get under water as we did the other day in Oceanarium of big and small amazing creatures otherwise we'd never gotten to see. My favourite will definitely be the blowfish on the second photo which I kept inspecting for an embarrassingly long time while in the shark glass tunnel I couldn't help noticing who was inspecting who.

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Between the three of us (us and Damian's twin brother as an avid photographer) we are too weak to resist getting to know more seagulls and match our footprints on the sand. This is one of many sandy beaches in the south of England that welcome bare and soled feet all year round so we skip some schedules and go to places we have too many chances to visit. But that's just the beauty of living near the water so we can only produce more situations like this.

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baseball cap, spring, style, todaymyway.com

October it was, windy and rainy in this part of Europe when I was whisked off to the rural area of nobody knowing anything about Poland and its citizens longing for more than a nice view outside the window. I have been living with less clothes due to the suitcase size but with more books I have ever seen indoors. Top it off with five cats meowing to get closer to the fabric of my trousers, visitors from around the globe and nearer neighbourhood, wooden floors and tables, fireplace and a stray deer finding its way to the budding roses on the bush growing just outside the patio door of our room. If it's still not enough to get crazy about this place picture me holding a warm piece of toast with salted butter deliciously melting as I open the upper portion of a stable-looking-like front door in the morning to soak up first rays of sunshine and jump away when the cat gets through the pet flap right onto my feet.

I'm so happy to be slowly moving towards summer months and mark each day with a brisk walk along the sea paths wearing unbeatable baseball cap for every outing. Days are getting longer and the signs of winter are getting weaker with every sight. Who needs an open fire for days like these?

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HOW TO MAKE MY HEART SWELL, spring, todaymyway.com

I do hope our seaside escapades brought to you in a jpg format by my ever talented almost-brother-in-law hold a warm place on your screens. Those pictures are just a feast of beautiful palette of blues and greens together with their legitimate inhabitants marking the flourishing of the season. Delight in front and behind the camera. It's still pretty cold outside but we like to move about even if it's for an hour or a half which means there's more to experience next time.

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at the seaside, love at the first breath, swanage, todaymyway.com

at the seaside, sea, swanage, todaymyway.com

spring at the seaside, swanage, todaymyway.com

spring at the seaside, swanage, spring, todaymyway.com

spring, seaside, first sun, todaymyway.com

seaside, spring, new beginning, swanage, todaymyway.com

yellow flowers, at the seaside, swanage, todaymyway.com

For the gardener, outdoor sports enthusiast or the fisherman spring is the most pleasant of times. I am neither of the above but coming of the season overwhelms me equally. Complete with the morning sunlight, bird's loud chirrup, rainbow of colour popping under my feet I cannot freak out enough. In those moments not only I experience living in a foreign country but also living for a foreign view - witnessing nature coming to life at the seaside can only compare to a few simple things in life. I guess dedicating two years to rural environment I'm slowly becoming a country mouse developing even more countryside habits as I speak and that includes sharing bedroom with bunch of cats, cooking on a cast iron heat storage AGA cooker and inviting flying creatures to our meals. It's our second spring shamelessly experimented for punches of colour and light, nature finds that can be brought home without asking.

Surprisingly for us, two adventurous bees flown here from the continent, spring on English Islands doesn't always move skies, break trees but works with the breeze and enhances images illuminated with silver of the dew. Luckily, exchanging postcodes not that all consciously we got to breathe in the crispiest air wandering freely on endless pathways for whatever days we have left here.

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