Some birds don’t migrate and as Oslo has taken away many natural bird homes to make way for ‘progress’, Oslo has certainly taken on responsibility to rehouse their birds.

I wonder how the birds feel about having to live in apartment blocks?

This tree on the farm was my favourite.  During the Summer, squirrels played in its branches.  In the Winter the branches collected the falling snow.  In the Autumn the leaves turned a magnificent yellow.

But as the seasons change, so do farms.  The tree was gone when we visited last Autumn.  It will be missed but now [...]

Rocks and fungus make flowers.

Have you ever wondered why some mountains are spiky and others are flat?  I haven’t, not until I came to Norway.  I used to think flat mountains were dull and boring.  They slowly rose in the distance making a boring outline and most often I would think they were a hill, not a mountain.  However, [...]

It takes about six hours to drive to Alta, more if you stop and eat, miss the car-barge or take pics.  On a straight highway it would only take about two hours to drive from Tromsø to Alta, but because Norway is built by fjords and mountains, the road winds in and out, up and [...]

The salmon river next to the farm is starting to freeze over.  The waterfall is usually the last place that becomes icy.  Soon the flow will completely stop until next Spring.

Tonight’s sky was filled with the Northern Lights.  The picture above was taken from our balcony at around 7:30pm.  The view is to the North and as you can see the city lights do not compare with the big green monster in the sky.

This picture was taken about 11pm.  The view is towards Kvaløya.  The [...]

The photo above was taken at midday – the sun never made it over the horizon.  Today was the first day of the long night in Tromsø.  This is the beginning of the dark season, or the dark Winter, where we have no sun for two months.  Technically there are no more sun-days until mid-January [...]