Monthly Archives: September 2012

One thing I have become very familiar with the past 6 months is mallard ducks.  Those of you who have been watching my blog will have noticed a lot of photos of them along the banks of the river.  We … Continue reading →

My thermometer said zero this morning when David left for work on his bicycle.  the official temperature was +4. The frost seems to have only hit the car windows –and roof tops –Maybe the fact that all the plants were … Continue reading →

Norway is an inconvenient country.  Very, very beautiful, but they have rules…… rules that seem to be cast in stone… those very old stones that you see in fields and mountains.  And here, rules are made to be followed to … Continue reading →

if we should be building an ark. This morning, I emptied 38 mm of water  out of my rain gauge – it was still raining when I did it.  It’s still raining now, although there have been patches of sun … Continue reading →

August 31 – 5:30 pm…. I thought it would never come.  Actually, the traffic was so terrible as we drove home from Tananger to catch the train, I was afraid that it would come to soon, and we wouldn’t make … Continue reading →

On Saturday, we went in search of salmon.  No, not to the local grocery store, or to the fish market.  To a river – they are flocking up stream now for the spawn. Figgjoelva, to be exact.  The river that … Continue reading →

This morning at Hanne’s, I finished sewing the binding and hanging sleeve on my Three Ladies. It is so nice to finally have something done.This is a copy of a painting by the Indian painter, B. Prabha.  My friend, Paramjeet … Continue reading →

I’ve always been fascinated with water – I think most of us are.  After all, that’s where we begin our lives.  And we are made up of mainly water.  Without it, we will perish, physically.  I think some of us … Continue reading →