First of all: Thank you so much for all your lovely comments! I know, this is my blog and I should blog about the things I like and as often as I would like to. But if this was only about me, I could do this offline in a diary or by just taking pictures and saving them to my computer. So yes, this is mainly about me and the things I like, but I wouldn’t have half the fun I have if there weren’t people like you who read my posts and give me feedback. And that’s why I think that this blog is also about you and why I wanted you to tell me, what you would like to have on our blog. :)

Okay, now to the trigger for today’s topic: The weather (this promises to be a boring post, doesn’t it?)! Since it’s really rainy and rather cold at the moment in Karlsruhe and it’s quite hard to shoot good pictures if the light is so dimmed like today, I flipped through some photos I shot a few weeks ago and found these two from our balcony.

I struggled with our balcony nearly every year. In spring I always bought plants and flowers en masse and when it came to July/August, I got tired of always having to water the flowers every day. Furthermore I found it quite dull, despite all the plants that had grown. But the floor was grey, the walls have this dirty light yellow and the rest is in this horrible dark brown. So that was how it was all the years and this year I finally made up a small plan: less flowers and something for the floor. So I bought this pink plastic rug (it’s by House Doctor) and less flowers, a small cherry tree and these two pink lanterns and now it looks like summer even if it’s raining.