STRIKKEN CREATIONS

Summer Close Up

2011-07-17T21:16:00.000+02:00

The Water Pump

2011-07-10T20:23:00.000+02:00

Art On the Ground - Art In the Ground

June Baloons

2011-07-02T16:47:00.000+02:00

Ceiling

2011-06-20T21:04:00.000+02:00

Prettty In Pink

2011-06-05T18:40:00.001+02:00

Mosaique Floor

2011-05-22T20:57:00.002+02:00

Ca d'Oro, Venice, Italy

Tulips

2011-05-17T22:57:00.000+02:00

Love Is In the Air

2011-05-16T17:27:00.000+02:00

The Moon and the Bridge

2011-05-13T21:34:00.001+02:00

Daisy

2011-05-11T22:21:00.000+02:00

As yesterday's post: Michael Boublé

By the Fjord

2011-05-10T23:33:00.001+02:00

Good tunes: Michael Boublé

Pink Spring Eve

2011-05-08T10:45:00.000+02:00

The Eye Of The Beholder

2011-05-06T21:13:00.000+02:00

The person who is widely credited with coining the saying in its current form is Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton), who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess'.

In Molly Bawn, 1878, there's the line "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

Source: The Phrase Finder

Anemone Hepatica - Detail

2011-04-22T16:31:00.000+02:00

Detail - Anemone Hepatica

"Aretha" by Rumer

Spring Has Sprung

2011-04-20T12:42:00.000+02:00

Orchids

2011-04-17T11:04:00.000+02:00

The Tower

2011-04-16T13:37:00.000+02:00

Easter Yellows

2011-04-14T13:53:00.000+02:00

In the Air

2011-04-12T15:12:00.000+02:00

Looking Forward To Summer

2011-04-08T17:36:00.000+02:00

Snippets From Heaven

2011-04-05T13:40:00.000+02:00

Have you considered that a hunch is angel talk,

and probably should not be ignored.

Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition,
do not dismiss your random thoughts,

inspirations or ideas.

Heaven talks in snippets, not in speeches.

Angels whisper fast.

They have to when they're flying around...

Honor your Hints from Heaven.

They could be giving you the best advice you ever had.

--Neale Donald Walsch

Count Your Blessings

2011-03-31T13:11:00.000+02:00

2011-03-28T12:55:00.000+02:00

Portalen, Trondheim, Norway

Reflections in Mona Lisa

2011-03-24T12:23:00.000+01:00

Bell Tower

2011-03-20T11:51:00.000+01:00

Lademoen Church, Trondheim

Blue Views

2011-03-18T10:45:00.001+01:00

Church of Our Lady

2011-03-16T12:04:00.000+01:00

- Early March Evening -

Church of Our Lady - Vår Frue kirke

Vår Frue - Åpen Kirke

Waiting for Spring

2011-03-13T20:55:00.001+01:00

Let Me In?!

2011-03-11T20:33:00.000+01:00

Fish

2011-03-09T11:00:00.000+01:00

"God is too big to fit into one religion"

-Unknown

I'd Rather Be Boating

2011-03-07T00:26:00.000+01:00

....but it is still winter...

Heart of the Matter

2011-02-28T23:33:00.001+01:00

Shades Captured

2011-02-27T12:25:00.001+01:00

There are many things in life

that will catch your eye,

but only a few will catch your heart...

pursue those

- M Nolan

Cartoon Tea Cup

2011-02-24T13:48:00.000+01:00

Tea cup creation

Be With....

2011-02-23T00:14:00.000+01:00

Words of wisdom: Rumi, Persian mystical poet

Venice Infatuation

2011-02-21T00:13:00.001+01:00

From St Mark's Square,

Venice, Italy

Byscenen, Trondheim

2011-02-18T23:48:00.000+01:00

Evening

2011-02-15T21:28:00.000+01:00

Not tripod, no special settings for shooting after dark. Just hand held equals blurry, but fun!

Valentine's Day

2011-02-14T20:45:00.000+01:00

Michael On My Mind

2011-02-13T21:29:00.001+01:00

Archangel Michael, Westfront, North Belltower

Artist: Kristofer Leirdal, b. 1915 - d. 2010

Kristoffer Leirdal was supposedly listening to Bob Dylan's music while creating this extraordinary piece,

even the archangels face is said to be based on Dylan's face...

River Side Walk

2011-02-12T23:08:00.000+01:00

A compliment is something like a kiss though a veil.

-Victor Hugo

Hearts n Dolphins

2011-02-10T20:36:00.001+01:00

North Country by Ola Gjeilo

http://www.olagjeilo.com/

Cranberry Heart

2011-02-10T04:24:00.001+01:00

For the Birds

2011-02-09T00:08:00.002+01:00

Every artist was first an amateur

- Emerson

The Crane and the Lights

2011-02-08T00:21:00.000+01:00

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass

is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug

- Helen Keller

Late Summer Sunset

2011-02-07T00:27:00.000+01:00

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
-Hal Borland

Sunset
Trondheim fjord
by Vaere-holmen,
Ranheim

Nidelven - the river

2011-02-05T21:17:00.000+01:00

2011-02-04T23:27:00.000+01:00

The Sugar Bowl

2011-01-29T00:28:00.000+01:00

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead

Just walk beside me and be my friend

-- Albert Camus

Happy Birthday, LG!

2011-01-28T00:31:00.000+01:00

Pilgrimscentrum, Vadstena, Sweden

Buddha's Earlobe

2011-01-23T16:55:00.000+01:00

Lobulus auriculae (singular) lobuli auricularum (plural)

....oooo000oooo....

"People are like stained-glass windows.

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

but when the darkness sets in,

their true beauty is revealed

only if there is a light from within.”

-Unknown

Hearts

2011-01-22T23:26:00.000+01:00

Love is

but the discovery of ourselves in others,

and the delight in the recognition

Alexander Smith

The River - Fog

2011-01-22T00:15:00.000+01:00

If my ship sails from sight,

it doesn't mean my journey ends,

it simply means the river bends.

-J. Enoch Powell

Silver gray fog over the river - Nidelven, Trondheim

Hearts On a Plate

2011-01-20T00:02:00.000+01:00

Wherever you are - be all there

Jim Elliot

View from Rockheim

2011-01-19T00:32:00.000+01:00

Take the first step in faith.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Buddha On the Sidewalk

2011-01-16T23:55:00.000+01:00

A little surprising to find these guys sitting on a bench on a busy sidewalk in Trondheim, but they make you smile and draw attention to the store that they belong to. Kind of pokes you a little as you half stop in semi disbelief to chek to see if this is what it seems to be....

Keeping an eye on traffic, too...

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him,

like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha

Rom For Alle, Beddingen, Nedre Elvehavn, Trondheim

Window Shopping

2011-01-12T23:04:00.001+01:00

From a second hand store in the neighborhood.

Captured around midnight hence the lack of light.

But she is gorgeous, isn't she?

Pink Roses

2011-01-11T16:32:00.000+01:00

The essence of pink.....

Crane At Dusk II

2011-01-10T21:20:00.000+01:00

Crane Infatuation...

Reflections of Winter

2011-01-10T00:18:00.000+01:00

Leiv Eiriksson's Sword

2011-01-08T14:28:00.000+01:00

A toddler's view of Leiv Eiriksson....

Crane At Dusk

2011-01-07T13:22:00.000+01:00

Leiv Eiriksson By The Harbor

2011-01-05T22:54:00.000+01:00

Looking To The Sky

2011-01-04T11:52:00.001+01:00

January Morning

2011-01-03T13:17:00.001+01:00

Be Yourself....

2011-01-02T13:21:00.001+01:00

... everybody else is taken...

Fireworks In The Distance

2011-01-02T00:38:00.001+01:00

An indoor New Years Eve view of the fireworks

from the Fortress

New Years Eve Snowy Afternoon Walk

2010-12-31T17:38:00.001+01:00

For each new morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food, for love and friends,

For everything Thy goodness sends.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crosscountry skiing in the streets was the best way to get anywhere this afternoon

Some have the snow showeling down to perfection and almost an art, as it were

.... making sure they could get their cars out to do the last minute shopping for tonight's big bash...

Good coverage :D

The Norwegian flag flying from the Fortress

The Cathedral

Happy 2011!

Pink Prisms

2010-12-30T00:43:00.000+01:00

Neighborhood Christmas Tree And Church

2010-12-28T14:38:00.001+01:00

Wrought Iron Fence

2010-12-27T09:21:00.000+01:00

From Nidaros Cathedral's cemetery - late December snow

Icons

2010-12-26T15:49:00.001+01:00

Merry Christmas - God Jul

2010-12-25T14:23:00.002+01:00

Peace On Earth

2010-12-24T14:26:00.002+01:00

On my way to the Christmas Eve Service at Nidaros Cathedral.

Not a soul around in the early evening light - "the blue hour"

Noel

2010-12-23T17:05:00.001+01:00

noel

Noel (or noël, sometimes written as nowell in English) is an alternate word for Christmas. The word comes from the French word Noël meaning "Christmas" which derives from the Old French word noël, a variant of nael. The Latin origin is the word natalis ("birth"). According to the 18th century Irish linguist and historian Charles Vallencey, a more ancient common origin appears in the Hebrew word nolah (Hebrew letters nuwn waw lamed he), meaning "to bring forth young." Subsequently, the Irish named December Mi Nolagh^{[citation needed]}, meaning "the month of the newborn." The Irish word for Christmas day was simply Nolagh.^[1] Although there is no Biblical use of nolah, another Hebrew word nephel^[2] is used Biblically to refer to an "untimely birth."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel

Enthusiasm

2010-12-22T14:05:00.001+01:00

... enthusiasm is half of the journey to success,

and all of the journey to joy.

If you're going to do something, do it with gusto.

Don't do anything half-heartedly.

That dishonors the doing and the doer.

So go for it.

Hold nothing back.

In life.

Or love.

Or anything at all.

- Neal Donald Walsch

Window Shopping

2010-12-21T14:05:00.000+01:00

Christmas Market Snaps

2010-12-20T19:48:00.000+01:00

The Christmas Market in Trondheim

http://www.citymanager.no/english1.aspx
" The Christmas Market in Trondheim takes place at the market square in December every year. Here you will find an exciting market with Christmas gifts, handicrafts, Christmas food, cultural gift vouchers, Christmas trees, theatre, café, outdoor auction, horse and sleigh and a tent where folk tales will be told. Welcome to a market where you will find the true Christmas spirit, entertainment and articles that you can not find in ordinary shops "

Show Your Heart

2010-12-19T21:18:00.000+01:00

Winter surronds the Cathedral

2010-12-18T12:47:00.001+01:00

Fragment of What Is To Come

2010-12-18T01:04:00.000+01:00

By the Foot Bridge

2010-12-17T14:49:00.000+01:00

Nidaros Cathedral, Women's Memorial Chapel

2010-12-17T01:54:00.001+01:00

Reflections

2010-12-16T00:03:00.000+01:00

Artsy?

It looked like a good idea, but with a mobile camera

at night, naaah.

The Foot Bridge

2010-12-15T18:42:00.000+01:00

Snowy Afternoon in Trondheim

2010-12-14T15:47:00.001+01:00

shades of white and grey

Angels...Window Shopping

2010-12-13T16:06:00.000+01:00

After the Snow Storm

2010-12-12T16:26:00.000+01:00

During A Snow Storm

2010-12-11T20:18:00.000+01:00

Journey On

2010-12-09T07:26:00.000+01:00

Good things await you

on the other side of this ridge.

This is a hill you can climb.

Just put one foot in front of the other.

If you feel a little discouraged right now,

that's okay, that's understandable.

But give yourself permission to journey on.

Keep moving.

There is a positive result here.

- Neal Donald Walsch

Window Shopping

2010-12-08T19:24:00.000+01:00

Nidaros Cathedral

2010-12-05T12:01:00.000+01:00

The cathedral - daylight quickly fading

Cold Afternoon by the River

2010-12-03T12:40:00.000+01:00

The Coldest November in 222 years

2010-12-01T12:35:00.000+01:00

This region of Norway has had coldest November in 222 years! I.e. since 1788 when the recording started in this region.... Brrrr, - but makes for many stunnig scenes if you make it outdoors.

Advent

2010-11-28T02:01:00.000+01:00

Men går eg øve engene - Vamp

Hark... Thanksgiving

2010-11-24T11:37:00.014+01:00

Happy

Thanksgiving!

Pilgrim Shelter Windowsill

2010-11-23T22:39:00.000+01:00

the Simplicity
the Mellow Pace
the Quiet

Walking works wonders for body and mind...

Windowsill in a pilgrim shelter outside Vadstena, Sweden

Rockheim By Night

2010-11-20T23:07:00.001+01:00

What a spectacular sight this building is at night.

It is located in the harbor in Trondheim.

Check it out.

It holds an amazing experience

given you are the slightest bit interested in rock music.

Walk past it, around it and under it at night

and experience the lights.

Even at a distance it does stand out.

Now there's an understatement for you.

Rockheim, Trondheim, Norway

Where to find it - Map

Watch your thoughts, your words...

2010-11-18T18:38:00.000+01:00

"Watch your thoughts, they become words

Watch your words, they become actions

Watch your actions, they become habits

Watch your habits, they become your character

Watch your character, it becomes your destiny"

~Unknown

Snow

2010-11-14T00:49:00.000+01:00

A blanket of snow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJWgcbY_9as&hd=1