Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

Among apples and pears

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The Refugium where we stay these days, south in Denmark, has a lovely garden filled with fruit trees, apples and pears.

All the fruits are ripe now, looking lovely where they hang.

Tempting, isn't it :-)

So far I have not seen anyone picking the fruits, but birds and critters seem to love them.

My friend Terri, from Oklahoma tagged me on facebook yesterday, showing a picture of bags of ripe apples having on  a fence and a text saying " In Norway people harvested their apples and hanged them in their respective fences so that the poor, the hungry, and the homeless avail fruits for free instead of letting apples to vaste. SHARING IS CARING."

I have not seen this done in Norway, neither is it done here, but Torgeir, our oldest son, who lives in Stockholm, Sweden, called me the other day asking for an apple pie recipe. "Are you going to bake?" I asked. "Yes, you see mamma, there are so many apple trees here where I live and now when the start to ripe, the owners of the trees pick apples, fill boxes and leave them on the pavements for everybody to take what they want and need."

 

The Conference in Denmark

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Yesterday in Copenhagen. Today I took the metro out to the airport and from there a four hours bus drive to Løgumkloster, far south on the biggest Danish island, Jylland.

I am here for the conference; "Nordic Network Conference on Church and People with Disabilities"

We have a variety of talks, workshops, groups and more, and before dinner tonight we had a service in the beautiful Løgum Monastery Church. The monastery is not an active one today, actually it has not been since the reformation in 1536-1537. Before that cistercienser munks lived here. Today the church is a Lutheran church and the refectories is run as a center for education, connected to the church of Denmark

Just outside my window is a bell tower with 49 bells. It plays at set times during the day, luckily not through the night. I have my window open and love it!

 

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Updates in my blog world:

Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader, my online journal

Akeleiehagen, The Blue Garden

Britt Arnhilds naturdagxbok, my nature notes

 

 

In Copenhagen, short stop :-)

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I flew from Trondheim this morning, one hour and 30 minutes later I landed in Copenhagen, Denmark. I am on my way to a church conference over at Jylland, further west in Denmark, another island, but had to fly here, and decided to give myself som extra hours to me a one day tourist.

Temperatures had dropped in Trondheim when I woke up this morning, no doubt autumn is in the air. Not so here, still summer, well, at least what I call summer. When I had lunch, outdoors, at Nyhavn, a couple from Israel sat at the table next to me. They complained about the cold, I was sweating :-)

Shopping and crowds streets are not my cup of tea, instead I look for parks and gardens, and in Copenhagen they are easy to find. There I could sit down with a book, my knitting, enjoying the sun, watching people :-)

Tomorrow I continue to Løgumkloster and Løgum Refugium, by bus.......which makes me able to see quite a lot of Denmark.

 

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Updates in my blog world:

Britt Arnhilds dagboksbladet, my online journal