Fantastic Aurora Borealis!
Yesterday I got to see on brilliantly fantastic Aurora Borealis Show! (Click on the pictures to see it full size! Click once, wait until it loads, then click once again and – VOILA! – you’ve godt it full size!)
Aurora Borealis last night - a spectacular show
More from yesterday’s Aurora-show
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Bogen in Ofoten
During World War 2 the German occupation force filled this fjord with piers, docks, barracks, roads and equipment for servicing naval vessels such as full size battleships and u-boats. Not much from that evil time resides in this beautiful, peaceful fjord today.
Bogen in Ofoten
The Cottage
Our beloved cottage build by my father from Russian Taiga Timber
Cozy evening by the cottage
Narvik and The Sleeping Queen
Narvik and a view of the mountain The Sleeping Queen (1.576 m. above sea level) in the background.
City of Narvik with the famous mountain The Sleeping Queen (1.576 m) in the background
Østervik River
The Østervik River - where my dad thought me to fish trout. Mind you, there are not big trout there - but it tastes great!
Autumn has come to Northern-Norway
The Forrests and mountains is full of berries and mushroom. The trees are also preparing for winter. They are now pulling their precious green sunpower molecule – Chlorophyll – from the leafs and sending it down to the roots for winter storage. That leaves another set of “cheap” pigments in the leaves, that the trees don’t need to store but can gracefully shed – covering the forrest floor – namely the carotenoids – wich – like in carrot is orange. There are yellow carotenoids as well. These pigments are there during the growth season, but the chlorophyll is in such an abundanse, that you cannot see the yellow, orange and red pigments – the carotenoids.
This birch in it’s autumn shroud shone through my lens and onto the chip in my camera on Thursday up on the Herjangen Mountain. Beautiful – isn’t it?
Ordinary Norwegian Birch (Betula pubescens) in it's autumns colours
Can you spot the Face in this Rock?
This picture was taken by the waterfall in the Østervik River. There is acutally a face in the rock! Can you spot it???
Can you spot the Face in this Rock?
Autumns Delight
Eventhough the birds are having a feast in our 150 year old Redcurrant (Ribes rubrum) threes, I manged to find a few berries they haven’t eaten.
Redcurrant (Norwegian: Rips, Latin: Ribes ruber)
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