New Years day 2011 gave us a light sprinkling of white fluffy snow.  Down our drive. Our tarred wooden shed by the duck pond.  No effects, just blue light from the dark season. Across the duck pond the trees hold the fallen snow.  The landscape is naturally in high contrast letting the blue light frame [...]

The days are so sunny and bright, green and vibrant, awake.  It is hard to imagine that this landscape was once covered by a meter of snow.  Winter is a distant memory, almost forgotten.  It is only when I browse through my photos that I remember that life will change again very soon and all [...]

I’ve had to wait until the first day of Summer before introducing watermelon to Lil’ Red.  He wasn’t too keen at first until he realised he could feed himself. Even though watermelon is imported they are only imported seasonally, (so no watermelon at Christmas for Southerners in Norway). However, it is ironic that one of [...]

Svalbard. Even in the Summer ice and snow cover this island landscape. As the Norwegian-Americans land at the airport the hunting videographer can’t wait to kill his first polar bear. Monica Christensen Solaas, a true Norwegian explorer, was overseer of the challenges, the first being a long distance ski trek to a ‘North Pole’ (a [...]