Moonlit Ofoten Fjord
Moon above the Ofoten Fjord and Narvik (Please, click the image for The Big Picture)
Evening by the Ofoten Fjord
Evening by the Ofoten Fjord (Please click image for mega-panorama)
Another Clear Day
Not much sunlight left (Click the image for a mega-panorama!)
Northern Light – Panorama
Unfortunately the tripod was a little wobbly – but I can assure you – the show was absolutely spectacular, at least just as beautiful as two nights ago – maybe even better!
Nordlys - Northern Lights - Aurora borealis (please click the image for full resolution!)
More from tonight’s Northern Lights Show
Northern Lights above the Ofoten Fjord ( seen towards South-West)
Northern Lights above the Ofoten Fjord 2 (seen towards South-West)
Northern Lights above the Ofoten Fjord 3 (seen in a West by South-Westerly direction)
Northern Lights – The Planet is Working!
All stressed out today . Way to much on my calender for this weekend.
So I took out the garbage and noticed something I have seen hundreds, maybe thousands of times; Northern Light. It was building in intensity above Narvik, but soon filled the entire sky! Eventhough my tiny pocket camera can never portrait the real thing and do it justice, below you’ll find a few examples of tonight’s Show.
30 minutes watching this show and all the stress had gone! Magnificent. Try that Pharmaceutical Industry – Northern lights in a pill – no can do!
Northern Lights above The Ofoten Fjord
Northern Lights above The Ofoten Fjord 2
Northern Lights above The Ofoten Fjord 3
Northern Lights above The Ofoten Fjord 3 - The picture was pressed to the max, but was unable to depict the enormous dancing lights covering most of the night sky.
Northern Lights above The Ofoten Fjord 5
Low sun shines on the mountain peaks by the Ofoten Fjord
Low sun shines on the mountain peaks by the Ofoten Fjord
Last shimmer of daylight in the North
In 20 days there is no sunshine and most of the day is pitch black until 13th of January. Around Christmas there is just an hour or two of twilight. The rest of the day it is totally black. In that perspective I must say the electricity producers should be ashamed of themselves. They practically give away industrial electricity to neighbor countries like Sweden and Denmark for free, while old, poor people in Norway freeze to death during the winter because they cannot pay the electricity bill. Shame on you!
Sometimes I get a feeling that the owners of the energy companies and politicians almost hate the people they are here to serve. There is a widespread nepotism in this society that will devour it unless it is stopped. To build a good society, both heart and mind must communicate with each other in the decision makers. Today it more or less seems that the only thing they are interested in is their own reelection, their own benefits and their own pension. That is no way to govern a society.
Well, we still have got the beautiful nature – for now…
Last Shimmer of Daylight in the North
All the Saints Day
All Saints Evening - Narvik Cemetery
My mother got it mixed up a bit. She thought that Halloween coincided with the Norwegian equivalent “Alle Helgens Dag” – all the Saints Day. It didn’t. Alle Helgens Dag was today, so in line with the tradition we went to the cemetery this evening and lit a few candles on the grave of my beloved father and grandma and grandpa. Everything was so silent in the snow. I really miss them a lot. They were all such kind people. Especially my dad. We could talk about everything. It often ended up in the subjects philosophy, technology, natural sciences and politics. Funny, it seems that my arguments persuaded him several times about what was the right thing to do. Even though he could be head-strong from time to time, he always listened to me and I to him. The best father-son relationship ever!
More Pure Fish
Today there has been a lot of private work, and I have done some translations. Apart from all this, there has been some more campaigning on the Campaign for Pure Norwegian Fish, and luckily the main public service news-channel in Norway, NRK, still keeps the focus on food additives – which is really admirable! Signing off with Today’s Panorama:
Today's Panorama of the inner part of the Ofoten Fjord and Narvik (please click for a larger picture)
Today’s Panoramas (Halloween 31st of October)
The City of Narvik at the base of the Ofoten Fjord (the inner part of the Vestfjorden - The West Fjord).
Silent before the Storm - There is a storm brewing South-West of Narvik.
Halloween 2
The All-Saints-Evening first "Knask eller Knep" - Halloween "trick or treat"!
Wonder how the poor, little guy can see through his mask…!
Norwegian Fish – (about) to become a Scam! SIGN PETITION TODAY! Norsk Fiskesvindel – SKRIV UNDER I DAG!
There has been a rotten hustle going on with Norwegian meat for years. It has become a “tradition” pumping the meat full of salt, water, phosphate and other additives to increase the weight, change the color and prolong shelf-life. NOW this scam is about to become an excuse for doing the same with The Norwegian Gold – FISH…! Already some Norwegian fish factories are illegally injecting fish with water, salt and phosphate – and now they want it legalized. Not only water and phosphate is going to be injected into the fish, but also fish-guts…!!! For what? For increasing weight and change color, so you – the consumer – won’t know that the fish is actually old and grey – because the fish meat is still white and shiny…!
What a SCAM! My grandfather Rolv Bjugn was a honest, hard working fisherman and it took a lot to make him angry. But I guarantee you he would not have been happy if he had watched the news yesterday..!
Sign the petition today! Keep Norwegian fish pure and of high quality an value! Please, Click Here – Skriv under i dag – hold norsk fisk ren! Klikk her!
My Grandfather - Rolv Bjugn - on his fishing vessel "Havleik", he is standing on the foredeck while sailing for the cod fishery in Lofoten Islands.
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