maple leaves forever

Let me stop to say a blessing for these woods: 

for crows barking and squirrels scampering, 

for trees and fungus and multi-colored leaves,

for the way sunlight laces with shadows 

through each branch and leaf of tree, 

for these paths that take me in, 

for these paths that lead me out.

           - Michael S. Glaser

                  

cold swim

Swimming season is not yet over. Mari is getting out of the water after PE lesson at the dock at school . She looks like an angel...

hard life

Dog has an injury and has resigned on the coach.

cold is best

Snow in the mountain, frozen ground, icing cold, clear air, walking is easy, breathing is easy and it is all totally magic.

Elliott and Jasper

it turned out to be a beautiful

Thanksgiving long weekend in Victoria, which

was spent with these two gentle

Savannah cats and their "mom and dad".

Now we're back to gloom and rain.... *sigh*

høstferie

Lunch at Herman, the local cafe,

playing by the seaside in the sunshine, before a lazy night with a lousy movie. Nine days off work!

vehicles into ploughshares?

transportation transformation....

bicycle planter

unused railway bed becomes a community garden

Red sky at night...

...sailors' delight

after a very gray day, the clouds broke up and let in some light
 just before sundown.

this morning

Think I am the last person on the planet. Hermansverk is gone, the road to Sogndal and the fjord - all gone.