Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

Under huge, old trees

@brittarnhild

As society here in Norway is slowly opening up, and we are now allowed to meet 20 people together, as long as we wash our hands, stay one meter apart, no handshakes, no hugs, my colleagues decided it was full time to arrange a feast to say thanks to me for my 20 years working for the diocese. I had my first work day there Mai 1st 2000, the last work day May 1st 2020.

We started just after work ended, with a two hours long walk around town to look at old trees and a few gardens. Sure, my old colleagues know me well and knew that this was something I would love.

A glorious day, glorious people, glorious trees. I let myself be filled and walked around with a smile on my face. Like in so many other cities, Trondheim has a huge amount of old and also some new trees. Many of them, well, I guess all of them, have a history, and yesterday afternoon we were told the history of many of them. And their names.

I am often wandering around in the city, looking at houses, birds, flowers, but never have I walked around focusing especially on trees. What an eye opener.

I knew the name of a few of the trees already, I learned a few more yesterday, but I still have a long way to go. And I will start walking that road right away :-)

The walk ended up in a restaurant downtown where we had dinner. My food was sprinkled with so many nice words, I could fly home on blessed wings.

 

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An updated the list of my active blogs:

Akeleiehagen - The Blue Garden (click on the picture)

Fløy en liten blåfugl - my birding journal (click on the picture)

  

maskerade - my knitting journal (click on the picture)

Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader - my online journal (click on the picture)

Nederst i hagen - my greenhouse diary (click on the picture)

Britt Arnhilds naturdagbok - my nature journal (click on the picture)

Hytteliv på Rastarbo - cabin life (click on the picture)

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Trondheim Houses

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My dad had an appointment at the hospital last night. I drove him there, but because of the pandemic I was obviously not allowed to come with him indoors. I knew about that and had packed my knitting and a book, planning to sit in the car while waiting.

The day had been cold and wet, but just as I left my father at the entrance door, the rain stopped.

This weather is perfect for a walk, I told myself, and off I went. First around the hospital park, then further on, to an area with old, beautiful villas.

I bought myself a new cell phone last week, with a very good camera, and of course I could not stop myself photographing a few of the charming houses.

I used to come here from time to time when I was young, now I have not walked these streets in decades.

As I walked around, enjoying the charm, shooting photos, my mind wandered to my House in the Woods. It is such a long, long time since I have taken you somewhere at all around my lovely hometown, Trondheim. And I took some extra photos.

So here I am, with some great photos for you. What do you think?
I might even open my blog Trondheim Through All Seasons again :-)

For some years I have had an account on instagram called TrondheimTales. When I opened it I connected it with my work email. Now, with this new cell phone, I am unable to get access to it, so I don't know what will happen. Probably it will just stay out there just as it is, with no new photos. I know I will miss posting Trondheim images, but I can always open something new. What about @trondheimhouses :-)

 

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A few days ago I uploaded episode 18 in English on YouTube. I am so proud of it, my English is flowing better, the filming is so good with my new cell phone camera and the tales I tell are lovely to listen to (in my opinion, >blush>)

Here is it:

 

 

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An updated the list of my active blogs:

Akeleiehagen - The Blue Garden (click on the picture)

Fløy en liten blåfugl - my birding journal (click on the picture)

  

maskerade - my knitting journal (click on the picture)

Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader - my online journal (click on the picture)

Nederst i hagen - my greenhouse diary (click on the picture)

Britt Arnhilds naturdagbok - my nature journal (click on the picture)

Hytteliv på Rastarbo - cabin life (click on the picture)

 

 

High Tide

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We have had a few days with exceptionally high tide, and as I know you love to see images from Trondheim, I have been out to shoot a few photos for you. Luckily no damage was done.

 

 

 

 

Walking over to the dentist

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While having afternoon coffee yesterday, I suddenly realised that a little piece of one of my teeth was missing. No hurting, no big damage, but still. First thing this morning I called my dentists office, and was lucky. I got an appointment after lunch.

With such short days we have for the moment, it felt like a blessing to be able to walk over from the Archbishop´s Palace, where I work, to the dentists office, making sure to take the most scenic walk, though the old part of our city.

Can you remember the years when I used to come here for a camera walk every Saturday morning? It is such a long time ago, may be it is time to go back to these photo walks?

What do you think? I know that more than one of you would like more Trondheim images, or what?

 

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Blogs with new posts today (will as always be updated throughout the day):

Fløy en liten blåfugl, my birding journal

Med bøker på menyen, my reading journal

Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader, my journal

maskerade - my knitting journal

Akeleiehagen, my garden journal

 

 

Day. Night. What do you prefer?

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First downtown for work.

Then downtown for pleasure.

 

Morning or night.......

I love my city.

 

In my blog world today:

 Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader, my daily journal

maskerade, my knitting blog, a secret crochet game :-)

 

 

Walk to work

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Some years ago, when Terje had another job, we used to drive together to his job, and from there I walked down to the city center and the Archbishop´s Palace. Then Terje got another job, with no parking space. He bought himself a new bicycle with special winter tyres and started to bike all year. I started to go by bus.

Today Terje had a car though, from his work, and I drove with him, and walked to my job.

The catholic church is new since last time I showed you pictures from this area. The old rose bush, which I remember from my childhood, is still there :-)

 

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The beauty of the cold

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It is really too colds for my liking these Sibirian Cold days.

I have no problem seeing the beauty though.

 

Photos taken with my smart phone while taking a detour to the bus after work today.
And a YouTube video from a bird walk on Monday

 

 

 

A walk in the wind

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Two very long workdays in a row.
I had a short break this afternoon, around 4pm, and took a walk around the cathedral and down to the river.

Unfortunately, the wind stole most of my words.

 

 

In Trondheim with a camera

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A walk  in my city with my camera, this time the one on my cell phone.

Trondheim has so much to offer, and I enjoy what I see.

New sights around every corner.

 

A walk in old Trondheim

 

@brittarnhild

As soon as I started to think about and miss my Saturday morning photo walks, I knew it was time to start doing them again. The coming Saturday I´ll be out of town, so I took a break from work and did a walk this morning instead.

The old part of the city, Bakklandet, with its charming wooden buildings, is just over the river from the cathedral and the archbishop´s palace, so there is where I often go. A charming area with café´s, galleries, small shops and flowers everywhere.

As I walked, as I looked for spots to photograph, I was inspired to develop my Trondheims blogs again.......do you know that there are three of them :-) 

Trondheim Through All Seasons

Trondheimsbilder

and

Life Close to the Cathedral

A blog can be challenging to keep up, though I hope to back on some Trondheim blogging again. Instagram though is much easier, so now I have opened another instagram account:

trondheimtales

Welcome over if you want to see more from my lovely city :-)