@brittarnhild
We have a weekend at the cabin, with good friends waiting ahead. But first, breakfast in the garden. We have renovated part of the garden this spring, and it is stunning right now.
A stop along the road to capture more beauty,
and finally we are here.
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Funfact, kind of:
I have challenged myself to pick one flower bouquet every day, take pictures and post on the instagram account @og_en_liten_blomst
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@brittarnhild
Still May, and for weeks now we have had very high temperatures, not at all normal for Norway at this time of the year. And together with high temperatures we have almost no rain at all. Still everything is green, thanks to the melting of the winter´s snow, but who know what our green landscape will look like if this continues.
Of course we can try to forget climate changes and enjoy, and that's what new decided to do today.
We were invited up in the mountains to visit some good friend which also have a cabin at this corner of the world. We brought our swimming suits, and we had a lovely swim in the small lake close to their cabin.
We enjoyed the moment and now we are back to reality.
What do we, what to I do to save our planet!
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Life at home can be challenging, with my 91 years old dad in a nursing home with dementia, my 94 years old mother having a femoral neck fracture after a bad fall last week. But after a busy period we were able today to pack the car and leave home for a week. Of course, what we did first thing was to drive the two hours to our cabin. We will stay here for a few days before continuing the travel, and if life goes our way, I will be able to take you along.
When we left the cabin last time, the very first lily of the valleys had started to develop the tiniest buds. I have been looking so much forward to come here and pick a bouquet, and then, when we arrived today, most of the flowers were already gone. After some searching, I managed to find a few in a shaded part of the forest, just enough for a small bouquet.
They are beautiful, aren't´they?
What is your favourite spring flower?
I have so many, it is impossible to count them.
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A couple of weeks ago we still had snow. Then, all of a sudden spring and warm weather came, and today I could start the season of foraging. A friend introduced me to wild garlic a few years ago. As far as I knit, it doesn't grow anywhere in the woods around Trondheim, but near our cabin , in secret places, you can find more than you need. A lot more.
I filled a basket just before we drove home from the cabin this morning. Ha, can you imagine the smell filling the car. Good for us, we both love garlic, and the smell og garlic.
I am going to freeze most of it, but since today is Friday and I always make pizzas on Friday night, I could fill the pizzas with wild garlic today, together with creme fraîche, very thin slices of potato, and topping it with cheese. Mmmmmm, delicious.
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We've been hiking again today. We met our relatives down on the farm yesterday and they told us about a route we've never hiked before. Starting from our cabin, along the road for about one kilometer, then following a small tractor road up, up, up.......all the way to the top of the mountain.
On the picture above we've reached the top and reward ourselves with the most delicious sweet pastries filled with vanilla cream, bought at the village bakery
It started easily. Slow hiking in the spring forest with the ground filled with wood anemones.
But soon all this hiking up, up, up started.
Somewhere up there was a bench where we could sit down for a rest. With a view directly over to where our cabin is.
The hike felt hard (for me, not at all for Terje), but I can be quite stubborn when I want to, and today I was determined to reach the top.
Which I did!
Oh, the view up there was amazing.
I am tired tonight,
and a wee bit proud of myself.
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We arrived at the cabin a few hours ago, and are noe living just in the middle of a perfect yellow spring. Sun, daffodils, forsythia, hyacinths.......you name it.
The cabin garden is at its best at this time of the year, and too many years we are not here to enjoy it.
This year we are!
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After a few days at home, we are back at the cabin. This time together with our youngest daughter Marta and our youngest son Øystein, his wife Silje and our two granddaughters Vida and Eline.
Today is Good Friday, and we have followed our tradition, to go for a walk on Good Friday low tide.
Terje, Marta and I drove down to the church and from there we walked down to the sea.
We came at the very best time, just after the sun had set and the world was coloured in pink.
The darkness fell fast, and we didn't have much time, we wanted to take the walk back from the car to the cabin while we still could see the path.
But of coursed, we didn't want to go back. We wanted to stay in this beauty as long as possible.
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@brittarnhild
Well, yesterday I wrote about the insecurity of spring here up north.
Today we woke up to this.!
Not much, and it melted fast, but snow showers have come and gone all through the day.
It is Palm Sunday today. No palms here of course, but the forsythia out in the cabin garden is about to bloom. I cut a few branches some days ago, and they are looking very good now, and are perfect to use as palms :-) Together with the forsythia and the yellow tulips, you see some feathers, from a woodcock, which we found in the woods here last year, and also a few of the eggs from my Easter egg collection.
I do have most of the collection at home, but found these when I was looking though my box of Easter decorations. They are handmade and beautiful. Unfortunately I can't remember where I bought them. Probably in Poland or Estonia, many years ago.
Last night the sky was clear, and we were able to see the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis. We can see it from time to time at home, but this is the first time we've seen it here at the cabin.
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Living in the middle of Norway, like we do, we never take spring for granted. It can be mild and sunny one day, then snowing the next. But now we've had a bead-string of sunny mild days, and I do not have words for how much I like it. The climate is milder here at the cabin than home, closer to the ocean as it is, and we can't get enough of the birdsong, the flowers popping up in the flower beds, the tiny mouse ear leaves on the trees. We can even sit outdoors with coffee, lunch and books.
The crocuses in the cabin garden open up and smile to the sun, I find I do the same.
Norwegians have a very special habit for Easter time. We read crime!
I have collected my Iain Pears book from the bookshelves here at the cabin, and have already dug into the first one.
By the way, "Easter-time" in Norway started yesterday afternoon and lasts till work starts again next Tuesday. Weird, I know, but that's how it is.
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Thanks to Sky and Vonnie who wrote me back on my question about my Easter egg. Sure, there will be some upcoming posts about my collection. Several I hope.
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Like last year and the year before that, we have a goal to do 100 hikes together, Terje and I, also this year. We had a great start the first two weeks of the year, on Tenerife, with hikes every day. Then, after we came home, we've had more challenges with snow and ice everywhere. Still a few hikes, with spiked shoes, but finally, it looks like spring is here, at least here on the coast where our cabin is situated, and I feel this overwhelming, amazing joy of spring.
A couple of weeks ago our daughter Ingrid and her family found a new place for perfect hiking out here, and today we went to the same place.
The snow has only recently melted, so no wild flowers up yet, but we could walk with our sneakers, still with dry feet, and we could smell spring everywhere.
I know I said there were no wild flowers, but we could see hundreds of snow drops in a garden we passed.
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