Day 153/366: Neighborhood bikes
The passage that runs in-between the gardens of our apartment complex and the one behind us. My place is the one at the very end there, second floor... the balcony that belongs to me is the sort of hidden behind those branches there, not the top one. Day 152/366: The Meeting
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 foot in there again.
Shot with my Samsung Galaxy SII
Day 151/366: The goons!
This was Wednesday, and by this time, the teachers (and many more with them, the ones that pick up trash, lot of other city and state employees, among other everyone in my department except me and my coworker in Bergen so we were super busy!) had been on strike for a week As I am writing this, it has been almost two weeks with no school for the kids. The challenge has been to figure out where they can be - one thing is to let my oldest be home alone a couple of days, but not weeks on end. And of course, the youngest cannot be home alone.
We have managed with partly letting them come with us to work, partly having my parents over or let them be with my parents at the cabin, since they are retired. The blonde in the photo is one of the girls' best friends, and her dad works at the same place as me. They only have each other at the time, his parents live far away and his mom is sick. so, she has joined our girls for most of the time. This afternoon they wanted to make fruit salad, and went to the store by themselves to pick out the fruit. They did a great job, it was very tasty! They even thought to buy a lemon to squirt over it so the apples and such would not brown.
Day 150/366: Bergen By Night
Tonight I was in Arna outside Bergen, at the house of one of the women in my reading group to attend this month's meeting. As always, a very enjoyable and pleasant time with great women.
Arna is situated a bit outside Bergen, so I was happy that I could catch a ride with one of the other women back to the city. She lives in the city center herself, so i had to find a bus to take to where I live. I could walk, but it was late and a 40 minute walk was not what I wanted right then. Walking past the fish market, I saw this beautiful sunset in the harbor area. The ship you see there is Statsraad Lemkuhl.
The serenity of the scene was kind of surreal, as this was the evening where the city hosted an Ozzy Osbourne concert, which had just ended, so the city was swarming with thousands of quite drunk and loud people! That in itself always feels kinda weird, walking as what feels like the only sober person in a myriad of drunk ones that all share the same experience and have bonded through it. It's like you exist on a different planet.
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Day 149/366: Summer explosion
This last week with the warm weather everything exploded nature wise. It had been so cold up until a week ago - May 17th the girls had to wear wool underwear under their dresses, and it was almost sleeting! The trees were not green, and hardly any flowers had sprung. But now, with temperatures up towards mid 80s Farenheit, it was only a few days at the cabin before we were bombarded with lushness and colors and fragrances! Absolutely amazing. It is the little things. :)
Emma went fishing with her dad and Grandad today as well, and they came back with a nice pollock we had for dinner!
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