Summer time

Since on last Saturday summer has officially started, I could not waste a minute of the perfect weather and opened my swimming season. Ah, good thing that so close to my home there is a lake which I can be easily reached by foot or – if I want to get there faster – by bicycle.

just some 10 minutes of pedaling and there it is…

2 kilometers are like nothing when I’m driven by the desire to plunge into water And since the swimming season is open, why limit myself to sunny days only? Any day is a swimming day unless it’s really too cold for that.

almost some sort of a personal heaven on Earth – green and soft grass, water, and a pleasant company of two ‘guys’

Also the company on those not so sunny and not so hot days are so much better and so much quieter too

That’s what I call good company, when I’m up to enjoy some solitude Their swimming costumes are also were dashing and catching the eye

On the more serious note, I’ve switched jobs like a month ago. Since the job offer was like grab it or loose it, but in either way I’d loose by then my current job, I took my chances and plunged deep into new water. What can I say? I’m starting to dot some ‘eyes’ already, I can state that I’ve forgotten that some companies could be such… joy killers. If I cannot find at least something to enjoy in this new company, then I’ll be back to looking for something else.
Like a neighborhood where my new office is located, there is something fishy about this new company. Can’t yet put a finger on it, neither can I tell if I really can’t find anything to like about this new job, but for a while I’m still about to give it a fair shot.

One of the ugliest of new neighborhoods in Vilnius. Built on a former landfill, with buildings rising up to 12 story high – as if it’s NY or something, and with building so close to each other that some balconies come so close to each other that it seems one neighbor could climb balconies to visit another in the opposing building. Concrete jungle which leaves me rather depressed and sorry for every one living there

Lazy Sunday

The first weekend of spring is still much winter like – for the starters we’ve got a short blizzard, then some sunshine, and again some more snow. But my spirit is already high, no matter what but like in a month’s span it should start changing to the more spring like manner for good. It’s March after all, and it’s for a reason that the first month of spring bears name  ‘kovas’ in Lithuanian, which quite literary means ‘battle’ or ‘fighting’.
During my jogging session on Sunday morning I went past this somewhat angry looking woman like snowman, which caught y eye so much that I even took a picture of it.

 

Angry and lonely snowman-lady

Sometime into my jogging session, I’ve had this brilliant idea – why not make her a mate? It is spring after all, and it’s nature’s mating time. So I’ve changed my jogging direction, so that I’d go back to that snowman-lady. And here are the results.

A happy duo

Re-post. September, 2011. Kairėnai Botanical Garden or Horses, a Hare, and Color Me Pretty

A joke about going for a horse ridding turned into flesh last weekend. Our choice for a trial ridding fell on Kairėnai botanical garden as it offered both the possibility to take a ridding lesson, and a nice afternoon in a beautiful place with lots of awesome and colorful plants.

Ridding was so much fun, that I'm eagerly waiting for yet another one. Hopefully sometime soon.

My very first time ridding, and many more were to come

Dahlias, dahlias, so many of them

A joke about going for a horse ridding turned into flesh last weekend. Our choice for a trial ridding fell on Kairėnai botanical garden as it offered both the possibility to take a ridding lesson, and a nice afternoon in a beautiful place with lots of awesome and colorful plants.
Ridding was so much fun, that I'm eagerly waiting for yet another one. Hopefully sometime soon.

Spot the rabbit

The three of us

Any one in need of a shopping cart?

Mirror, mirror, who's the fairest of 'em all

Cabbage

Rabbits of a tree. Bit scary looking, but still nice installation

Re-post. June, 2011. Two Days In June. Anykščiai-Biržai-Rokiškis

So on 25th June the three of us from the original 'cast of 4 to 5' set off for our Aukštaitija tour. Originally the whole trip was planned for three days, so that there would be some places of interest to visit on each day, but we could still maintain this rather leisurous pace. Huh-uh, due to some force majeur factors we only departed at almost midday on Saturday, but still very determined to make only the very necessary changes to the route.

Re-post. July, 2008. Panemunė

Re-post. Praėjusį šeštadienį išsiruošėm aplankyti Panemunę. Gamta fantastiška, bet kad LT paveldas nėra itin vertinamas ir saugomas taip pat akivaizdu. Deja...
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