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Winter landscape. The sun is warming once more.


 

In early autumn the leaves of Black Bearberry acquire this intense red color seen in transmitted light.


 

At the mouth of the river Gaula grows a forest of tall Sea Buckthorn.


 

The berries on Sea Buckthorn



 

Cow near a beach. South of Sandnessjøen, Nordland


 

In the background reside "The Seven Sisters", or at least some of them. In the foreground "tractor eggs".


 

The northern sky at midsummer, about 01:40 AM true solar time, seen from my living room.


 

Rowan tree. In ancient times people planted a tuntre (farm yard tree) where the old farm owner was buried ...


 

Fjord at sunset (Tingvoll)


 

Fishing with the boys. Back to the forest cabin to fry trout for dinner and to enjoy an evening at the fireplace.


 

Fishing with the boys. A weekend with heavy rain and wind that shook the cabin during the night.


 

Fishing with the boys. If you make birch burn in the stove it continues to burn even if it's dripping wet.


 

Fishing with the boys – in wind and rain. Calm enough to row out and pull in the fishnets?


 

Fishing with the boys. A luxurious tent – but the poles were left at home. Luckily nobody around to watch ...


 

Fishing with the boys – and picking cloudberries – this time on a plateau overlooking the Atlantic (Roan).


 

Late autumn 2003, "tractor eggs", i.e. grass fodder wrapped in plastic for consevation.


 

Cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry ... [ More about foxberries. ]



 

Ridderspranget (The Knight's Leap) near the road across Valdresflya.



 

Autumn 2003, the sheep are back from the mountain pastures.



 

Evening at the river Otra in Valle, Setesdal.



 

A windblown forest. Dead pines remain standing for hundreds of years.



 

The deep sky – reflections in a lake.



 

The lake Eikesdalsvatnet, in Nesset, east of Molde.



 

The first frost.



 

The joy of winter.



 

Christmas snow. (The Tiller Church.)



 

Cold, smoke and low sun.



 

Frost near the sea.



 

The river Nidelva and the Tanem bridge.



 

Horses in winter.



 

The river Driva in Sunndal.



 

Dandelion ia a hated weed, but it's beautiful.



 

View towards east from close to the new Imarsund bridge.



 

Blindleia, the beautiful ship's channel inside the islands southwest of Lillesand.



 

The Skjernøy strait, view towards Skjernøy, southeast of Mandal



 

The Sjøsand sandy beach, 800 meters long, ending inside Mandal town.



 

Svennevik, on the road Vigeland–Lindesnes. Here are a lot of the Sørlandet type of boathouses.



 

Jåsund, a strait north of Lindesnes. The road Spangereid–Lyngdal crosses the strait close by.



 

On the lake Selura in Nuland there is a cable pull for water-skiing and wakeboarding.



 

View of Geiranger from Ørnevegen, "The Eagle's Road".



 

Geiranger once more, viewed from the east.



 

The ferry is approaching Lekneset to take us across Hjørundfjorden to Sæbø, just in time for a late dinner.



 

Sæbø in the morning, a man fishing for salmon in the river and the mountain Slogen on the other side of Hjørundfjorden.



 

Looking down at the east end of Jølstravatnet – "-vatnet" means 'the lake'.



 

The beach Overåsanden at Hjørungavåg (south of Ålesund) and the millennium monument to the battle of Hjørungavåg in AD 986.



 

Refvik on Vågsøy (with the small town Måløy, southwest of Ålesund), featuring a camping site and an ocean-side beach.



 

The beach in Refvik



 

A graveyard open to the forces of the Atlantic. Ervik on Stadlandet, a peninsula southwest of Ålesund.



 

The beach on Stokkøya for those who prefer cool Atlantic water. This is an island on the Trøndelag coast.



 

One of the many beaches on Jæren, the flat and windblown land southeast of Stavanger.



 

Oltedal, an inland community southeast of Stavanger.



 

Bakka and the Nærøy church at Nærøyfjorden.



 

Woodbine – coastal woods of Southern Norway.



 

Mute Swan – south soast.



 

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Norangsdalen
a narrow and wild valley    

 

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