Life close to the Cathedral

The crooked tree

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A winter without snow is not what we are used to here in Trondheim. The bare trees are beautiful in the low, cold wintersun though. I walk around and enjoy the interesting beauty.

 

Autumn colours in the cathedral park

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Soon the huge trees will be naked, but this they are heavy with burning leaves in all different colours of autumn.

The old cathedral has lived with the changing seasons for centuries.
Still, every year, every month, every day
comes with her own beauty.

The cathedral park in blue paint

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Every year, when spring is about the arrive, The Creator packs his painbox and his brushes and take a walk in the cathedral park.

Playing hide and seek with birds and people, he paints the park blue.

Scilla blue.

Life and death in the cathedral park

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Hardly is the snow melted before the tiny little scillas force their leaves through the frozen soil, through brown leaves from last autumn.

 
I find my way through paths still covered in snow, trying to jump from bare soil to bare soil. Rejoycing in the strong signs of spring. Of new birth.

 
Among the growing bulbs a crow lies dead. No better place to say goodbye to life than on a cathedral graveyard.

Life and death. Hand in hand.

 

Trees, old and young

The cathedral park is filled with trees. Huge ones. Almost, though not quite, as huge as the cathedral itself.

Some times a tree dies and a new one is planted.  

Vandalism in the Cathedral Park

During the night between Saturday and Sunday people have visited the cathedral park for one purpose only. Vandalism.

 
29 stones are overturned. Some of them almost completely destroyed.

 It is unbelieveable. So sad!

I walked through the park this morning.

 From my office window I see workmen cleaning up.