Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

But where is spring hiding?

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In my previous post, which I wrote a month ago (can it be that long!) I talked about spring.......in the greenhouse. We were in deep winter then, and we are in even deeper winter now.

Poor Terje, on Sunday he spent hours shovelling our driveway and the paths we need in the garden to feed the birds and walk down to the greenhouse. Lucky for both of us he is a very fit 67 years old, and of course all this shovelling makes him even fitter.

These pictures were taken on Sunday.
Since then it has continued to snow and snow ands snow.......

 

A snow day in Norway

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It is snowing. It has been snowing for days, and it goes on and on and on and on and.......

I have been in Oslo for a couple of days, and was picked up at the airport this afternoon by an airport taxi.

All these pictures are taken through the front window of the taxi.

A small accident, but nothing serious. Life goes on as usual when it snows in Norway.

Finally I can see my own house.

More snow is predicted the coming days.

The beauty of grey

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In the middle of all this YouTubeing.......I am not going to forget blogging.
So here are some pictures from my walk to the bus after work today.

I never knew a grey day could be so beautiful.

Inside a fairytale.

The green cathedral roof painted white by the snow.

The snow ploughs had not been out.
Walking in deep snow can be a challenge.

 

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Today´s YouTube video is not about snow at all,
but about something else :-)

 

 

 

Snowballs for a lantern

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There are many different types of snow. I have heard that sami people who own reindeers have more than 300 different words for it. In the Norwegian language snow is snow, or rather snø as we say in Norway, but we do have quite a few words to describe if the snow is dry, wet, icy, new, old and so on. For the moment, with temperatures around  Zero Celsius, which is the freezing point, the snow is kram,  which means that it is perfect to work with. Not kram enough to make snowmen though, but perfect for small snowballs.

Small and big hand together can form quite a lot of snowballs, putting them together. First a small circle. Then one on top of the other.

And soon you have a lantern to light up the dark, arctic Christmas night.