Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

Busy beavers

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The golden days of this autumn are now history. The neverending yellow sun was defeated by grey skies and a lot of rain, at least for a couple of days. But today, when we woke up, it had stopped raining, it felt mild and fresh, it smelt of the coming winter and the forest called our names.

Lucky us, we could do our Sunday hike with a pram, and the most beautiful almost 11 months old baby in the world. He was supposed to have his afternoon nap, but how could he, with so much to see.

The beavers know that winter is just around the corner, and are super busy building on their lodges now.

We did not see any beavers, they are shy and live their life when we are asleep I guess, but their tracks could not be missed.

The steps of autumn

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The path of autumn.
The stairs filled with bright, yellow colours.

It is easy to walk My Best Years Ever walk when nature offers its abundant beauty.

 

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The beauty of the ordinary

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It was a break in the meeting. I rose from my chair and walked over to the window. Looking out, but too deep in my thoughts to see anything.......at first.

Then, after a while, my eyes focused. And I saw a crow.

A quite ordinary crow.

 

There are millions of them around.

Grey and black.

Usually you see them without seeing them. They are too ordinary.

Not today.

Today I saw the crow. I mean, I saw it, really SAW it.

 

And I saw how beautiful it is.

 

My camera, my weapon of happiness

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Tonight I am going to give my first ever flower talk, for a botanical society in a small town just south of Trondheim. I will talk about botanical gardens around the world, and while doing the last touch on the power point presentation today, I found this photo.

And I knew that my camera will continue to be my best friend on my travel along the read called My best Years Ever.

The photos wer taken by Terje, in Dublin Botanical Garden, a year ago.

 

And this one is from the same travel ti Ireland.
Camera, travels and Terje <3 <3 <3

 

The bright side of life

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The last few years have been a bit hard for me. I am getting older. The kids have all moved out. Health issues has prevented me from doing the work I loved. Depression has been knocking on my door and I have struggled hard to keep the door closed.

The struggle has kind of shadowed my life. Greyish watercolours have outmaneuvered the clean, shining colours which I have had in my palette most of my life.

 

The greyish watercolours road is a steep one to climb.

Then, today, out of the blue, out of a clean, shining blue, my inner voice spoke to me:

"Britt-Arnhild, why not make the coming days, the coming months, the coming years the very best time in your life!"

 

 

You know what! That´s what I plan to do!!!

 

Faded

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Mr Frost arrived in The Blue Garden a couple of weeks ago. So far he seem to look upon it as a bed & breakfast, as soon as the sun is up he leaves for cold business elsewhere.

When Mr. Frost moves in, everything else seem to fade. His icy cold breating covers the garden, makes it cringe, the plants doing their best to survive.

An allium, long time faded, refuses to give up. In the middle of the flower bed she proudly shows off. She wants to let the world know that she still has something important to share. Her beauty.

Høvikfjellet, the Høvik Mountain, again.....

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Waking up to this lovely day, we had no choice. It had to be a hike to Høvikfjellet.

The day started as usual, with me first out from the bedroom. I came out to a sky painted in pink and blues, and had to wake up Terje. This was too beautiful to experience alone.

We were the first ones to park our car at the parking place where to hike to Høvikfjellet starts. And we had the nature all to ourselves untill we were starting to hike down again.

 

Over the last few years, there gas come more and more steinrøys, stone pyramides. Where do they get all the stones from? 

We reached the top today.......again.

and Terje could tale my victory shot.

A few photos of the view.

And a selfie :-)

Winter preparations

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Some years we can have snow in the middle of October. Other years we don´t, and instead the weather can be absolutely beautiful, as it is right now. Today was so beautiful, we decided to skip the planned hike, and spend all day in the small piece of land which is ours, on the western coast of Norway.

In between drinking coffee and napping and reading and drinking coffee and napping and reading and.......I weeded the flower bads and planted bulbs which will give us sparkling colours when spring comes.

Sometimes I wonder

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some times I wonder

who am I

some time I wonder

who are you

 

often I wonder

who are we

 

the blurred one

is that me

or you

 

or some days me

some days you

 

 

vulnerable

more so when I am distinct

or when blurred

 

 

some times I wonder

 

who

 

am

 

 

I

 

 

 

 

 

and who are you

 

 

Autum Colours Collection

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Lucky us. It looks like we have chosen the most beautiful weekend of the year for our October cabin weekend.

I started to collect autumn colours already on the drive out here.

And I plan to continue through the weekend and beyond.