eitorn

Old pride

Cold and wet but green

Vestreim. My favourite place

Geranium sylvaticum

hovercraft rescue

Coast Guard hovercraft

hovercraft departing

Strange sight on Spanish Banks...a huge Coast Guard hovercraft beaching itself.  Paramedics were waiting for a man being transported from Wreck Beach, where the climb is too steep to carry someone out on a stretcher.


   All I had with me was my iPhone.

VPD Beach Patrol and ATVs.

Thank God, it was just our tax-payer $$ hard at work... from a distance, I thought we were being invaded!  I don't know by whom... :-)

bachelorette party for monica

Every barn and cowshed in Sogn is transformed into a eatery. Cozy, but not such a good indication for agriculture in the area.

pink snow

 Cherry blossoms are fading and floating to the ground.

picnic table and petals

"17-maiplassen"

An ancient place for gatherings. High above the fjord and deep in the forest.

Neatly kept as if someone swept the floor the same day.

Less than a generation ago there was a whole village in the steep slopes of Eitorn:

http://eitorn.origo.no/

dusk

crossing a field on my way home

Four in the morning and I am desperately tired after a party with my colleagues. Weather is awful but the nights are blond.

my city in colour

the close of a lovely day

Locarno Beach

Fjærland bremuseum

Visiting the glacier museum with 8th grade.

I am taking the picture.

in my kitchen

a modest celebration

Well, we ended up in a restaurant. The local one, Herman. And I must say I prefer Janne's version of the Norwegian flag. I always do prefer Janne's version, whatever it is. She did the ceiling also.

17. mai

Norwegian national day. It is a big thing. But I woke up at two, and it is raining sideways, so I don't think I'll give a damn.

Raining 2

Confirmation Sunday, and rather miserable.

Raining 1

Dog wants to go out. I open the door. It is pouring down. She looks at me and says

"why did you do this?"

Peace

The pig, the dog and the one-piece-kid in the greenery.

Canadian families

A sunny day made for family outings.

my ship is loaded with...

...people

English Bay

rainy day lie-in

 I opened my eyes ...

... And looked up at the rain,

And it dripped in my head

And flowed into my brain,

And all that I hear as I lie in my bed

Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.

                - excerpt from "Rain" by S. Silverstein

ordinary kids

At the end of the lesson I told the kids to sit down in the sand. And look around. The blossoming trees, the fjord, the snow on the mountains, the sun and beach volley in the school ground.

How ordinary is this.

They just made fun of me.

election day

lining up in the rain to exercise
our civic right

seeking last minute advice from the straight

bristol cream

A teaser

tulips

tulip fields, Seabird Island, and majestic Mount Cheam
near Agassiz, B.C.