This cute wooden row boat has become a feature of the landscape.  It is always sitting in the same place.  I know it gets used in the fjord but I have never seen it floating on the water, only sitting on the beach.  Soon the ice will come and freeze itself onto the boat.  It [...]

Like every year, the first snow has melted away in the city.  Its like a pre-wash – washing all the dust and dirt away in preparation for the Winter snow.  But the first snow always stays on the mountains.  When the wind blows over them it becomes chilly in the city below.  This first snow [...]

The Tromsø Palm is beautiful but deadly.  It stands strong and high, and dominates roadsides, gullies, creek banks and backyards.  It changes dramatically from Spring to Winter – an alluring plant to photograph. Tromsø Palm in: Spring, Autumn, Winter The plant’s sap is poisonous to the touch.  One can suffer an array of ailments from [...]

I’ve never seen rocks like these before – PINK!  I thought Norway was supposed to be the ‘Arctic Blue’ not cold pink. At least pink and blue go together – don’t they?