Where did it go the little funny white throated dipper. I had no hopes of seeing the bird in this landscape. All I wanted was to enjoy the peace and the vast landscape along the stream. If I should catch sight of it and see it nodding and dancing, diving and flying low over the water then I would certainly be happy. But there were other more focused birders, with telephoto lenses so big they were squishing under the weight. I did not envy them in the cold. I hope they got what they came for. I got the joy of a wonderful white landscape 🤗
I can tell you that the Danish winter has changed significantly. And that probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone. What is interesting is that it has happened so quickly.
The pictures are from 2012 and since then it’s getting longer between the really hard winters! If you want to photograph snowy landscapes, you have to be quick with the camera.
Those snowy days on the pictures is every child’s wish for a real winter. It was indescribably beautiful and fun to be out and about.
The grandeur of the mountains can be overwhelming at times. Especially if bad weather sets in. Perhaps that is why the Norwegians are so fond of their cabins. With a cabin they are able to seek shelter and ‘kose sig’. ‘Hygge’ in Danish 🤗
We have never brought our tent with us in the Norwegian mountains, but always used the exceptional cabin system, which is widespread throughout Norway. Furthermore, it gives you the opportunity to meet the Norwegians. It’s never boring!
We have met many walkers and exchanged stories and experiences. We have met Norwegian hunters, Card Players and many incredibly nice cabin people. We are filled to the brim with lovely stories, and yet I always yearn for new ones. Isn’t that what it is all about?
Old birch tree by Sognefjorden
The birch tree Artist: Thomas Fearnley Date: 1839 Painting
Norwegian Highlands in Sunrise
The Norwegian painter, Hans Gude, 1854.
Card Players
Artist: Harriet Backer Date: 1897 Visual artist, Painter Born 1845 in Holmestrand, died 1932 in Oslo
Norske Fossen
Artist: Thomas Fearnley
The hunters on the way home
We soon arrived at the hut. The boy had gone ahead with the dogs and had made a skilful fire on the fireplace.
Illustration to “En Tiurleg i Holleia” in P. Chr. Asbjørnsen, Norske Folke- og Huldre-Eventyr i Udvalg. Copenhagen 1879 Artist: Hans Gude Date: 1878 or 1879 Designation: Drawing
“Promise to stay wild with me. We’ll seek and return and stay and find beauty and the extraordinary in all the spaces we can claim. We´ll know how to live. How to breathe magic into the mundane.” ~ Victoria Erickson
“…into the coppery halls of beech and intricate oak to be close to the trees as they whisper together let fall their leaves…” ~ Katherine Towers’ The Remedies
“Cold be hand and heart and bone and cold be sleep under stone never more to wake on stony bed never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead In the black wind the stars shall die and still be gold here let them lie till the Dark Lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.” * J.R.R. Tolkien
HANNA'S WALK 
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