It´s 32 degrees outside, warm and not so comfortable outside.This is already warm here in Europe.I spent almost 8 years in Kuwait and everyday, we have 48+ degrees temps.Its crazy but I thought, I don´t have the right to complain since on the other side of the planet, it´s the normal.

I am a summer person since I grew up in the tropical Philippines so I kinda used to the heat. When it rains here in Germany, I am glad only for the reason that I don´t need to water the plants in the garden and it makes our lawn happy, alive and green, that´s it.As a kid, I love bathing under the rain and just get drenched.Again, enjoying ordinary things!

But not so these days.Everything seemed dry,boring, thirsty and palpitating. The lawn is dry and I dunno how to repair it.I dunno if its just the heat or the restlessness of daily survival.Aside from the weather, what else is worthy of talking?Of course, everyone raves about their own vacation plans.Who´s flying to Dubai, US or getting into a cruise or doing the Scandinavian trip.

Oh colors, yes! back to my thoughts…

It´s summer break here in Bavaria, and that means 6 whole weeks of no school.Here in Germany, only the 1st 2 weeks of the break that some Kinderbetreuung (or after school daycare) are open .The rest days, the children stays at home, go on vacation or visit their Grandparents and relatives or just spends family time .That means parents needs to take their precious Vacation days.Does it sound colorful, partly, yes, partly, no.

But then sometimes, I stumbled upon colorful meaningless or aka normal things on random ordinary days. I vowed to myself that I would do more ordinary things on ordinary days to celebrate this ordinary life.I tooked photos of these umbrellas from the front courtyard of Fronte, where my daughter took some summer courses and was actually glad I did it.

But how do we do it? I keep on thinking about hiking a mountain,do some stargazing, sleeping in an Almhutte and watch the sun comes out at 4 a.m. After that I wanna run 5km up in the mountain if terrain is possible for a run.

That is my version of grand relaxation.

Back to my ordinary reality, first, I´ve chased some colors.Here´s an example. For the past days, it seldom rains. But these colorful umbrellas hunged up in the air seems outrageously pretty. I´m kind of blinded when I stare upon them, making me imagine that these umbrellas can reached up to Asia and send some cooling vibes to the arid temperatures there.I ´ve wished these umbrellas could make all children smile and just be grateful that nowadays,they have the fine luxuries in life.

I continued mumbling to myself and thought that if you see ordinary things and viewed it as a special thing then I would go to bed happy, contented, and alive.Almost everyone in our neighborhood are in vacation and I have allowed myself to do good deeds and turned ordinary things into pleasurable ones.We feed the guinea pigs, water the neighbours´s plants, collect their posts and picked up their parcels. Ordinary things but not everyone loves doing them.

I see it as planting seeds for tomorrow.Later on , you reap what you are sowing kind of thing.

I let my thoughts wander, loose, and boundless and I began to appreciate more and more what I see everyday.I cycle early in the morning to continue chase these wonderful morning daybreak colors.My daughter and my husband are still snoring but I am out already admiring these colorful pallettes.I love running while the sky is doing its show. Of course, “Enter Sandman” from Metallica helps to boost my ordinary legs to do more miles!

It´s so peaceful, quiet, and I feel really special.I guess not everyone is a morning person as I am.Again, this thing about doing ordinary things on every day , not just on weekend where everyone, or almost half of the population is still sleeping but at least I try to chase these colors everyday if I can.

I greeted the rabbits that graze in our parks and watched the morning silhouttes in the Danube river.Sometimes I see a young deer, and sometimes, some drunken, partly awaked party goers.I shouted to them “Guten Morgen“! and they´ve replied ” Servus” as well.

And last but not the least, I have hugged quite a number of trees in our neighborhood these days. There are lots of old trees, more like impossible to hug because they are so wide and huge. I love the fact that I can feel their skin, their bark, with different textures that gave me thousand inspiration to paint them in my Textured Abstract artworks. It really made a difference. I feel positive vibes and connected.

These trees, green is their color but they emanates colorful energy. They´ve been here before me and maybe after me. They are living legends, like a statue or monument , more better than thousand monuments for King Ludwig of Bavaria , Goethe, Beethoven or Mozart.My daughter loved the idea that she did it as well and we promised to hug a tree in any place that we go or visited.Something cool is happening, colorful ordinary thing seems to be working.

When was the last time you´ve hugged a tree? or have you ever done this ordinary thing?

Thank you for reading my thoughts. It´s up on my Blog on Tuesday Thoughts!

Have you ever tried doing ordinary things that turned out to be otally special?

Until then, Servus and Tschüß!