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Day 177/366: Vatheia
February 25, 2020 - This spectacular fortress village sneaks upon you as you drive up this very narrow, windy road in the mountains. We reac...
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Day 176/366: Meze for lunch
February 25, 2020 - I love Greek food, and if you didn't know, it goes far beyond the pita Gyros! Meze is one of my favorite ways of enjoyin...
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Day 175/366: Swimming fools
June 22, 2012 - Yet another day spent at the beach/hotel. The girls spent all day in the water. From early morning to late in the evenin...
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Day 174/366: Sara in Napflio
June 22, 2012 - Today we took the bus into the nearest bigger city, Napflio. It was the first capital of modern Greece, from the start o...
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Day 173/366: Mythos
June 21, 2012 - I love Mythos beer. It is bitter and strong in taste, and I drank several bottles every day:)
This was a super relaxi...
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Day 172/366: Taking in the Mediterranean Sea
June 20, 2012 - After a loooong day of travel that started at 4 am in the morning, the girls finally got to dip their feet into the Medi...
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Day 170/366: Morning wait
June 18, 2012 - Shot this just down from where I live, while waiting for my ride to work... I had a meeting quite early and having to ge...
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Day 169/366: Friends and pavlova
June 17, 2012 - After spending most of the day packing and cleaning and organizing and doing laundry, Bjørn and his daughter Maja came o...
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Day 168/366: Failed stress reliever
June 16, 2012 - I have been kinda stressed lately, so much to organize and fix at the same time - everything from juggling bill payments...
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Day 167/366: Bergen light rail
June 15, 2012 - Had to take a different bus to work today than my usual one, and the one I took went through the city. It makes for diff...
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Day 166/366: Being present
June 14, 2012 - Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.
Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
If you have your attention on what is see...
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Day 165/366: Light
June 13, 2012 - A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by...
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Day 164/366: Sunlit
June 12, 2012 - Lovers alone wear sunlight
E.E. Cummings
Just loved the way the evening sun came though the window and made me enwra...
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Day 163/366: Spotified
June 11, 2012 - Someone has discovered Spotify... and loves it. She made play lists all evening... Very eclectic music taste that is all...
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Day 162/366: BADS performance in the park
June 10, 2012 - It was "Nygårdparkens dag" (a day celebrating a local park) today, and Emma's theater troupe BADS (Bergen Amateur dramat...
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Day 161/366: Zafran laugh
June 09, 2012 - Today we went to a Persian restaurant called Zafran for dinner. Way back in February I bought a coupon for 2 servings of...
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Day 159/366: Sunny summer evening
June 07, 2012 - This is shot at almost 10:30 pm, after coming back from the city where I had dinner in the city with some of the people...
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Day 158/366: Culinary
June 06, 2012 - I love making food when I have have and/or make the time to do it properly. It is a skill I want to develop and perfect...
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Day 157/366: Resilient
June 05, 2012 - The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They a...
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Day 156/366: When only mom will do
June 04, 2012 - One of those days where a cry was needed... For no particular reason. And, at those times, only mom will do. I love this...
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Day 155/366: Pollo alla Diavola
June 03, 2012 - I made this Italian chicken dish called Pollo alla Diavola for dinner today. It was very good! My 8 year old daughter at...
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Day 154/366: Dark Sun
June 02, 2012 - The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
Alice Hoff...
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Day 153/366: Neighborhood bikes
May 31, 2012 - Saw these bikes in the little passage that runs through the gardens of our apartment complex and the gardens of the apar...
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Day 152/366: The Meeting
May 30, 2012 - I had a meeting in this building today, finding myself in a situation that was surreal to me. I hope I never have to set...
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Day 150/366: Bergen By Night
May 29, 2012 - Tonight I was in Arna outside Bergen, at the house of one of the women in my reading group to attend this month's meetin...
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Day 146/366: Beach Life
May 25, 2012 - Today Sara was with me to the office again due to the strike, but we left early and went home to pick up the rest of the...
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Day 145/366: Working Girl
May 24, 2012 - Since there is a big strike going on in state and public sector, I had and assistance with me at work today. Not quite o...
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Day 144/366: Hot In The City
May 23, 2012 - It was a hot day in the office. No wonder, considering we have broken the heat record for May here in Bergen today
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Day 143/366: Working Outdoors
May 22, 2012 - One of the perks with warm summery evenings - doing homework outside on the balcony
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Day 142/366: Almost Midnight Sun
May 21, 2012 - Here in south-west Norway, we are not quite far up North to enjoy the midnight sun. Up in north-Norway, they will very s...
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Day 141/366: Bubbles
May 19, 2012 - This Sunday was the first of many days were we had real summer weather. Temperature kept rising all the following week,...
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Day 140/366: Looming
May 18, 2012 - This photo was captured sitting on the stairs on the way up the trail to one of the 7 mountains surrounding Bergen. The...
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Day 139/366: Harry Potter Marathon
May 17, 2012 - We were all pretty beat after the Constitution day, so the next day after I got home from work (the kids had the day off...
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Day 138/366: Constitution Day
May 16, 2012 - (You can read more about what the Constitution day entails <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/anne-cathrine_nyberg/72...
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Day 136/366: ADAY.org contribution
May 15, 2012 - I signed up to do this earlier this month, and today was the day to capture a picture to contribute. The chance presente...
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Day 135/366: Red sky at night, sailors delight
May 14, 2012 - After yet another windy and rainy day, it calmed down in the evening/night. The sunset is full of hope for better days a...
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Day 134/366: November weather
May 13, 2012 - It was atrocious out today, full on storm, really cold, lots and lots of rain. It felt like November! We spent all day i...
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Day 133/366: Bryggen
May 12, 2012 - This is one of the iconoclastic images from Bergen, the city where I come from and reside. From Wikipedia: Bryggen (the...
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Day 132/366: Strawberry cheesecake
May 11, 2012 - It was my husbands birthday today, and every year on this day I make his favorite: cheesecake.
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Day 131/366: Early morning rain
May 10, 2012 - Gloomy morning, gloomy mood. This was one of those days where I felt how the hope of a better financial life was dwindli...
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Day 130/366: Forest berries smoothie
May 09, 2012 - I love making smoothies, and with the birthday gift my husband got from my parents (a blender - I gave him a bad ass sti...
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Day 129/366: Cherry Blossom
May 08, 2012 - Shot on my way up to the school to attend teacher/parent conference for my 8 year old daughter.
As usual, it was all...
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Day 128/366: Steak and eggs
May 07, 2012 - ... because some days breakfast for dinner is just what you need and want!
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Day 127/366: Lollipop extraordinaire!
May 05, 2012 - My parents have been traveling for the last 3 weeks - first Spain then Portugal. They came home just before the weekend,...
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Day 126/366: Dream a little dream...
May 05, 2012 - I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's i...
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Day 125/366: Caught in the rain
May 04, 2012 - Almost every Friday I get off the bus a few stops before my regular bus stop on my way home from work to do the weekly g...
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Day 124/366: Meal preparations
May 03, 2012 - I like to cook... a lot. But in the chaos and flurrying activities of every day, coming home from work to "starving" kid...
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Day 123/366: May flower
May 02, 2012 - Again, something I saw on my way to and from the bus stop where I take and get off the bus I use to and from work every...
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Day 122/366: The View
May 01, 2012 - May 1st we woke up to gorgeous weather! And warm, so again, t-shirt and shorts could be used. We had invited some friend...
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Day 121/366: Birthday
April 30, 2012 - A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
Today you are...
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Day 120/366: Here comes the sun...
April 29, 2012 - Here comes the sun
The Beatles
Here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo)
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right...
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Day 119/366: Blue
April 27, 2012 - Things have turned a deeper shade of blue
And images that might be real
May be illusion
Keep flashing off and on
Fre...
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Day 118/366: The endless commute
April 27, 2012 - I spend close to 2 hours on the bus each day, going to and from work. So it is no wonder that some of my pictures in thi...
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Day 117/366: Spring Bloom
April 26, 2012 - Some changes occur suddenly like a brilliant flash of lightning striking across a dark sky. These changes are stunning,...
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Day 116/366: Fjord horse
April 25, 2012 - This fellow greeted me on my way to the work place in Leikanger this morning! This is a breed of horses that derive from...
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Day 115/366: Valley of Leikanger
April 24, 2012 - After being done with the work day, I headed to the hotel to change into clothes and shoes more appropriate to go hiking...
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Day 114/366: Greeted by the sun
April 23, 2012 - I went to Leikanger again today, for a second "phase" of my training. I was there in January for the first part of my tr...
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Day 100/366: Walking down memory lane
April 09, 2012 - Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out...
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Day 99/366: Fearless
April 08, 2012 - We spent Easter Sunday at the amusement park (or tivoli as we call it) that came to town for Easter. My oldest daughter...
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Day 98/366: The Climber
April 07, 2012 - My oldest daughters loves to climb trees, and enjoy it every time we are at the cabin.
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Day 97/366: Window at cabin at dusk
April 06, 2012 - We spent two days and one night at the cabin this Easter, marking the first trip out there this year. These bottles in t...
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Day 96/366: Maundy Thursday
April 05, 2012 - Today marked my first day off for Easter. As said here, we all have Thursday through Monday off for Easter here in Norwa...
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Day 95/366: Preparing dinner
April 04, 2012 - Awhile ago I bought this huge trout on sale, and today I decided to cook it for dinner. I stuffed it with lemon, butter,...
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Day 94/366: Refusing to acknowledge the snow!
April 03, 2012 - Day 94/366: Refusing to acknowledge the snow!
The cold weather continues, and it has even been snowing a bit. not unusu...
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Day 93/366: Wind in my hair
April 02, 2012 - Day 93/366: Wind in my hair
I decided to take a walk outside during my lunch today, since it looked so nice out. I thou...
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Day 92/366: Icedrops
April 01, 2012 - Day 92/366: Icedrops
The cold weather we’ve been having made the morning dew into icedrops.
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Day 91/365: The Walk
March 31, 2012 - Day 91/365: The Walk
The girls and I walked our way to go grocery shopping today, a 5 kilometres walk! Originally it wa...
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Day 90/366: Cleansing
March 29, 2012 - Day 90/366: Cleansing
Water have always been important to me. I love the sea, the rivers, the waterfalls, and dream of...
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Day 89/366: Easter Musical
March 29, 2012 - Day 89/366: Easter Musical
My oldest daughters class (5th grade) and the 7th grade performed the Easter musical this ye...
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Day 88/366: The state of my office
March 28, 2012 - Day 88/366: The state of my office
This is my workplace… being rebuild into a bigger office that will fit two people. M...
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Day 87/366: One of those March days…
March 27, 2012 - Day 87/366: One of those March days…
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: wh...
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Day 86/366: Foggy morning
March 26, 2012 - Day 86/366: Foggy morning
… when arriving at work today.
Shot with my Samsung Galaxy SII
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Day 85/366: The bathing Guinea pig
March 25, 2012 - Day 85/366: The bathing Guinea pig
This is our oldest daughter’s pet. He is the sweetest most patient and personable...
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Day 84/366: Beer in good company
March 24, 2012 - Day 84/366: Beer in good company
The kids stayed with their grandparents from Saturday to mid day Sunday, so we went ou...
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Day 83/366: Shadow
March 23, 2012 - Day 83/366: Shadow
It was sunny here today for a chance, and I had to rid myself of my coat (you can see it hanging on...
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Day 82/366: Pizza
March 22, 2012 - Day 82/366: Pizza
On Thursday afternoon Sara had 3 friends from her class over to what they call "friends group". The c...
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