I don't have a balcony and it's not summer yet, but that doesn't stop me from getting some sun while I work. It's actually super warm in this stop right now because wind can't reach in between the buildings, one might almost mistake this as a summer day, but it's not more than maybe 12 degrees Celsius (thats "cold" in Fahrenheit) in the shade.
Every summer I have my big window open almost all day when I don't want to go to the beach and I want to enjoy some sun alone. My neighbours probably think I am mental, but I have no shame, I'll put on a bikini top and use this spot like it was my balcony. I eat, read and look at the sun for too long in here. Sometimes I even sunbathe naked on the floor because I'm pretty sure nobody can see me from the apartments across, pretty sure, but not certain.
I'm not actually a huge fan of going to the beach because if you gonna be there for long, you need to bring all sorts of snack and the drinks get warm, and there are often other people and and and what about the bathroom situation. I like hanging out home because the fridge is close and I never get bored because I have all the entertainment close to me. I have this well thought out routine if I'm free, in the city and it's sunny. I go down to the back yard to read and drink coffee in the morning, because the sun starts shining there from 10am, then when it turn to the other side of the house, the sun hits my apartment from 1pm until about 5pm. I know, I'm a fucking weirdo, but I follow the light, in life and in photography.
This summer will be the first summer since high school(?) when I'm fully free to go and do as I please, so I'm pretty damn excited. If the weather is nice, I have no need to travel abroad in search of a magical summer. I'll probably spend quite a lot of time in the countryside too, being a hippie child with dirty feet and tangled hair, or course photographing it all for you to see.
Okay, enough of me rambling, I just felt like doing a pretty random post for once, instead of carefully crafting a photographic story, or ranting... Hope you don't mind.