I know basil.  I’ve grown it before in pots on my windowsill in Australia.  I loved being able to snip off a bit of fresh basil for my salads and pasta.  So this Spring, imagining all the lovely 24 hour sun we’d be having over Summer and all the lovely basil I could be eating, [...]

The last month we have had to use the lights in our house at night.  This might seem quite normal for most people but since we have been living with the sun constantly through out Summer there has been no need to switch on any light in the house.
But now in Northern Norway the night [...]

We went to the beach today and it was packed.  But looking at the above picture towards the water you can’t tell.  So where are all the people..?

…on the grass.  When it’s hot North Norwegians go to the beach but not to swim, only to sunbath.  When they get too hot they head for the [...]

It’s watermelon season!  Not that Norway grows watermelons but the shops are packed with the bowling ball fruit at the moment.  (I’ve always had a secret desire to carve three finger-holes in my watermelon and just bowl that thing down the driveway into a ten pin of pineapples.)

It is a little weird [...]

Spring is very different here in Norway.  Instead of blossoming flowers and bright sun it is the time the thick Winter snow melts and the clouds try hard to replenish it.  Eventually the clouds give up to make way for Summer but usually not until the end of May.
Even though the green has yet [...]

It is hard to go to sleep when you know what is happening outside.  The days are lovely this side of Summer but the nights are absolutely beautiful.

There is an opposition in everything. At the darkest time of the year, we celebrate Christmas. And at the exact opposite end, when the midnight sun is at its highest, we celebrate Midsummer.

I wish you were there, then you wouldn’t have to rely on my measly words or pictures to tell of this moment.
These are the days of the midnight sun.  The mountains are so high that sunrise is mimicked each morning.  The city lays dark but the sky is bright.  The sun makes it’s climb over [...]

I have an addiction.  Anything green I have to point my camera at and shoot it.  Green absolutely fascinates me.  It’s not that I haven’t seen it before but there is just something about it that makes me feel… alive.
With each photo I always remember the atmosphere, the air, the smell, the sun.  Each photo [...]

Australians grow up with the idea that the great Aussie barbie is a true blue tradition that distinguishes us from the rest of the world.  We (used to) get a kick out of our Australian icon Paul Hogan (aka Crocodile Dundee) trying to teach the Americans how to put on a ‘real’ BBQ.

When I came [...]