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2013-05-19 14:31:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-11 06:48:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

2013-05-09 21:27:07 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~ Pablo Neruda

2013-05-09 17:59:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
~ Marcus Aurelius 

(Peek-a-boo, said the bumble bee)

2013-05-09 10:36:46 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Your country's new, your friends are new
Your house and even your eyes are new
Your maid is new and your accent too
But your fear is as old as the world.

- David Bowie

2013-05-08 20:15:59 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 27 +1s)

Essa on a 4 hour hike last Sunday, at about 58.854196,6.063227

2013-05-07 21:24:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Vote for the cutest dog - eeever!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/cuteornot?id=2179463

2013-05-06 07:40:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.
- Michael Ende 

2013-05-06 07:35:22 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

A steep and long climb.

2013-04-25 21:05:25 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Edinburgh. Takk for invitasjonen!

2013-04-25 20:58:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

Merry Scotland - between Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

2013-04-14 19:56:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-03-14 21:42:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

God moves in mysterious ways - and places:

2013-03-14 21:41:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

"When Hell freezes over," she said,
"Oh, like yesterday you mean?" I got to reply.

2013-03-02 05:55:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Orre old. Church is a church from 1250 in Klepp, Rogaland county (Jæren). The church is close to  the sea; Orrestranda, the North Sea. The sea probably stood higher in the Middle Ages, so that boats could moor at the church walls. Orre old church was the parish church for Orre until 1950, when Orre Church on Pollestad (Orre center) was built.
Built of stone, it has 250 seats.

Location: 58.732281,5.529497

2013-02-18 19:40:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Skriv under på opprop mot rettssaken!

2013-02-17 23:05:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-14 21:28:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

“Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.” 
― John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte And Positivism

2013-02-14 20:50:28 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Some frosty shots!

2012-12-24 03:09:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

A merry Xmas to all from me with this album of photos taken the last couple of days!.
May you all have peace in your hearts and benevolent thoughts in your heads!

2012-12-06 02:25:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Added photos to Me & My Camera Contest by Lorena Masi and Peter From.

2012-12-06 00:54:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

“Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

 William Shakespeare

2012-12-05 10:35:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

“Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.” 
― Sinclair Lewis

2012-11-15 21:29:43 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Rainy night in Georgia Klepp.

2012-11-15 18:43:28 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I use Avast on all my computers - because it's free - and easy to use.

2012-11-08 22:52:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

"November always seemed to me the Norway of the year."

-   Emily Dickinson

2012-11-07 22:08:07 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

“What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?” 

― Margaret Atwood

2012-11-07 19:13:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Added photos to Pen and Lens Wednesday.

2012-11-04 23:44:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Some stones have to gather moss, so that the rest gets to rock 'n roll.

2012-11-04 21:45:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-11-04 21:43:17 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

I looked for a quote regarding "scared", and found what follows. I guess, in hindsight, one could say that it is explanatory:

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. 

~ Lance Armstrong 

2012-11-04 19:22:06 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

“How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak”

-   Jack Handy 

2012-11-04 00:09:56 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

“Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?” 

― Bill Watterson

2012-11-02 22:36:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Added photos to #HIJACKED.

2012-11-02 19:57:52 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

“Some leaves hang late, some fall
before the first frost--so goes
the tale of winter branches and old bones.”

~ William Carlos Williams

2012-10-30 22:25:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

“Deep roots are not reached by frost.”

~  J.R.R. Tolkien 

2012-10-28 21:23:57 (5 comments, 7 reshares, 21 +1s)

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy 

2012-10-28 10:53:09 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

This is what integrity looks like.

August Landmesser was a worker at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, best known for his appearance in a photograph refusing to perform the Nazi salute at the launch of the naval training vessel Horst Wessel on 13 June 1936.

2012-10-28 10:38:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

“Winter is coming.” 

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

2012-10-27 17:09:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October”

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

2012-10-27 07:13:36 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. 

~ Leonardo da Vinci 

2012-10-26 22:39:12 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. 

~ Hans Hofmann 

2012-10-26 20:43:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

"My opinions have probably changed, but not the fact that I'm right."

~ Kåre Willoch

2012-10-24 19:16:46 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!” 

― C. JoyBell C.

2012-10-23 19:57:12 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.
It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. 

~ Hal Borland 

2012-10-21 20:26:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

At the Railway Station, Upways

‘There is not much that I can do,
For I’ve no money that’s quite my own!’
Spoke up the pitying child—
A little boy with a violin
At the station before the train came in,—
‘But I can play my fiddle to you,
And a nice one ’tis, and good in tone!’
 
The man in the handcuffs smiled;
The constable looked, and he smiled too,
As the fiddle began to twang;
And the man in the handcuffs suddenly sang
With grimful glee:
‘This life so free
Is the thing for me!’
And the constable smiled, and said no word,
As if unconscious of what he heard;
And so they went on till the train came in—
The convict, and boy with the violin.

~ THOMAS HARDY

2012-10-21 19:07:59 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 24 +1s)

Alone

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view. 
~ Edgar Allan Poe

2012-10-17 21:25:54 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

2012-10-17 19:43:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Check out Norwegian artist Tommy Tokyo's new album "_And the horse came riderless_".

His songs are compared with Tom Waits, Neil Young and Will Oldham by one Norwegian newspaper. Listen in and see if they're right!

https://itunes.apple.com/no/album/horse-came-riderless.../id561197252?l=nb

2012-10-16 20:56:31 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Northern lights in the mountains. Helgeland - Norway