The last days have been grey and foggy. And I have missed the sun. Today, the sun came out in the evening and we had this wonderful light.
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Camping in the fog
It was supposed to be sunny. So, we set out to camp on the mountain to have a view over the city. Even before we started of dense fog crept up the mountain. And we never saw the sun. We found ourselves a pretty spot by a lake, set up the tents and lit a fire in the mystical fog.
Takk for turen!
Find your island
Yoga has been „my island“ for a long time. It’s where I find to myself, take the time to work with my body and leave my mind behind.
Today, after a long yoga break I had this moment. At the beginning of the lesson, I closed my eyes and was completely inside myself. Yes, yes it sounds strange, and it was. I felt the time suddenly stopped running and I got calm, something I had not felt in a long time.
A not to the future myself, please go to yoga regularly!
Handmade knife
„Life with metal and fire“ is the moto of the blacksmith Lampert-Guarda. They are situated in the Eastern Swiss Alps, in a small village in the Engadin.
One of their products are beautiful handmade knifes. I recently bought a ham knife, with a 12cm blade and a wooden handle.
The knife was delivered in a black box on a alpine meadow bed :-)
Copying melaniegaranin
Water colour paintings can be amazing and I am trying to learn to draw. I would not say I am very talented, but drawing is something that needs practice, practice and more practice. Also, I am not very good at freestyle drawing, and therefore I am often looking for drawings that I like and then I copy them. And I’m very good at copying :-)
My newest discovery is melaniegaranin. She is an illustraror and makes (simple,) beautiful drawings. I love that she can draw anything with a very few lines, but exactly the right amount of detail. You can follow her on instagram and at the moment she is posting one animal a day combined with very cute stories about the animals.
I also love her work, because she is often drawing horses, dogs and basically anything with eyes. In my opinion, everything can have eyes!
A tiny guest
A few days ago we had a tiny little guest at the tinyhouse. Only the hidden camera could catch the tiny wren.
This was 2017
To become a tradition, it has to happen three times. So, this was my 2017:
- I started the year in the sun in Capo Verde, with wonderful people, lot’s of sun, swimming and excellent music.
- Traveled twice over the Atlantic for work. Once to Oregon, where I also travelled and the second time to Tucson, where I enjoyed the sun and fell for the food.
- Visited China again and saw the Great Wall
- Did not move to a new house or office!
- Caught a big fish.
- Did non-stop field work for a couple of weeks.
- Did some water coloring which resulted in a book.
- Took one picture a day for a whole year: 365xawesome I will continue to post a picture a day, but here.
- Had another rainy summer in Bergen.
- Kayaked to work with my foldable Oru Kayak
- Spent more than a month at Finse skiing, working, teaching and counting flowers and flies.
- Made a lot of videos about work and skiing at Finse.
- Thought a bunch of excellent students about ecology, writing and R coding
- Ended the year in Bad Tölz with the Bananafishbone unplugged concerts
- Published 2 papers
Thank you everybody for sharing 2017 with me!
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Morning run
I love to live in the city centre, to have everything close by, get a coffee, walk to the shop and go for a stroll in the centre. It’s convenient to have everything very close. And in Bergen you can have the city and right by your house.
But I also like to live in the countryside. Not having any neighbours, hearing the birds sing and seeing animals from the window. The Tiny House in Buechberg is such a place and I love spending time here. It is great to wake up and be able to walk out of the door and start jogging. This morning was lovely even with some sun.
