A farewell smile of the day

From the early swimming round this morning, through my visit to the beach this afternoon, until now in this writing, a silent inner smile guides me. It really felt as being “in your element” - in the poolwater - . And at the seaside you nearly couldn’t believe what you saw and how it felt: gone with the stormy winds were the highcrested tumbling waves.

There she was laying lazy - little murmuring ripples at the surf. Flat all out on her back near the sandbanks, dozing as if she was bringing us the first spring delight. I could feel the lust to put all this thick wintercoating off and simply walk on untill the glistening undeep would give no more ground.

This lightness of being, so unbelievable, where we stood yesterday the camera trembling in your cold fingers, shaking under the sudden heavy blows of the wind, everything was so calm and peacefull and delicate and promising for a coming springtime… Now I couldn’t resist laughing aloud - nobody near to hear - and shot a hundred pictures. All remembering the stormy scene’s from the days before. Boring grey reminiscences, deleted.

But just before leaving to return home, a cold wind rose from the south. It started to rain again. The weak sunlight vanished into a thick dark cloud. I shivered and took this picture...as a farewell smile of this day.