Evening

From Tananger Harbour looking towards the islands.

Frozen #2

Breiavatnet, Stavanger

Departure

Stavanger #5

Tananger Harbour #5

Tananger Harbour

Fire

Summit

"You cannot stay on the summit forever.

You have to come down again...

One climbs and one sees;

one descends and one sees no longer.

But one has seen.

There is an art of conducting oneself

by the memory of what one saw higher up.

When one no longer sees,

one can at least still know."

René Daumal

Cannon

One of my neighbours has two cannon in his garden.

Luckily, they are pointing in the opposite direction!

Snow #2

Tananger Harbour #3

Tananger Harbour #2

Snow

Lighthouse #2

Tananger Lighthouse

Frozen

Ice forming around the stems of the reeds

in Store Stokkavatn, Stavanger

3.40pm

From the window of my study

View #8

View from the Ullandhaug Tower.

Looking north-east towards Stavanger (foreground),

across the fjord at the mountains of the Ryfylke region

Graffiti

Thinking man's graffiti !

Found on the side of the Ullandhaugtårnet, Stavanger

Regatta

Christmas Regatta, Stavanger Harbour

Customs

Stavanger Customs Office 1905

View #7

Reflection #3

Utstein Kloster

Window #8

Utstein Kloster

Landscape

"Whole against the sky"

“Once the realization is accepted

that even between the closest human beings

infinite distances continue to exist,

a wonderful living side by side can grow up,

if they succeed in loving the distance between them

which makes it possible for each to see the other

whole against the sky.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Shadow

Taken at Utstein Kloster

Jellyfish

Sunrise

Tananger

Pilot

The pilot boat, Tananger Harbour

River

IKEA

The one-and-only red and white IKEA,

and the ubiquitous Swedish meatballs.

This post is dedicated to Jenny.

Plus ça change …

..... plus c’est la même chose.

Utstein Kloster

Cathedral #2

Stavanger Cathedral interior

Supermarket

A typical Norwegian supermarket.

One wonders what is actually in the chiller cabinet!

Cathedral

Stavanger Cathedral

Founded in 1125, but rebuilt after the fire of 1272.

Stavanger #4

Stavanger Harbour

Shops

Some imaginatively named shops in Stavanger town centre

Shell

Cabin

A typical Norwegain mountain "hytte" or cabin

Waves