About in April, or May of 2006, we felt time running out on us. We had arrived on July 5th, 2004 and had immersed ourselves in the Norwegian culture, taken trips to our ancestral towns in Sweden, visited Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Spain, England, Italy and driven all over Norway, but still, there was so much that we had not seen and time was slipping away.
We decided to takes some weekends and head out on what I called our 'Stavkirke Pilgrimage'. All but one Stavkirke are found in Norway and by count there are about 27 or 28 depending on the definition of a Stavkirke. I took the map and mapped a round trip to Bergen (Oslo would be found on the (Easternish) southern tip if Norway, Bergen is on the lower western portion of Norway) trying to hit all the stavkirke's I could along the way. We did this twice - photographing about 17 in all.
As you can see, they are not in this photo, I don't know why I explained what we were doing on this trip - I will go through my Stavkirke photos later and post the more spectacular ones. But we were blessed on one trip with the most beautiful weather you could imagine. We pass hundreds of small lakes with the traditional red houses and barns - Norway seemed to have particular colors you could use for your house - yellow and red were popular, as was a white cream, our green and black was less familiar but you never saw a bright purple or hot pink house anywhere - I don't know if this was state sanctioned or just good taste of the Norwegians. So all the small towns or groupings of houses we saw looked very similar to this grouping.
But on this particular day, every lake we drove by was pure glass! We had to stop and take photos of all of them, Ryan and Jessie and Charlie getting very bored in the back seat. We hit pay dirt at one little lake where two beautiful canoes were docked. One was bright blue and is not in this particular photo. And then there was this wooden one - a beauty in its own right, but on a lake of glass with a traditional farm behind it - depicts what we saw a hundred times over, just more beautifully on that particular day.
We decided to takes some weekends and head out on what I called our 'Stavkirke Pilgrimage'. All but one Stavkirke are found in Norway and by count there are about 27 or 28 depending on the definition of a Stavkirke. I took the map and mapped a round trip to Bergen (Oslo would be found on the (Easternish) southern tip if Norway, Bergen is on the lower western portion of Norway) trying to hit all the stavkirke's I could along the way. We did this twice - photographing about 17 in all.
As you can see, they are not in this photo, I don't know why I explained what we were doing on this trip - I will go through my Stavkirke photos later and post the more spectacular ones. But we were blessed on one trip with the most beautiful weather you could imagine. We pass hundreds of small lakes with the traditional red houses and barns - Norway seemed to have particular colors you could use for your house - yellow and red were popular, as was a white cream, our green and black was less familiar but you never saw a bright purple or hot pink house anywhere - I don't know if this was state sanctioned or just good taste of the Norwegians. So all the small towns or groupings of houses we saw looked very similar to this grouping.
But on this particular day, every lake we drove by was pure glass! We had to stop and take photos of all of them, Ryan and Jessie and Charlie getting very bored in the back seat. We hit pay dirt at one little lake where two beautiful canoes were docked. One was bright blue and is not in this particular photo. And then there was this wooden one - a beauty in its own right, but on a lake of glass with a traditional farm behind it - depicts what we saw a hundred times over, just more beautifully on that particular day.
3 comments:
Gorgeous.
That picture is beautiful. A perfect reflection.
Courtney said it all: gorgeous.
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