…and today, the sun actually rose (visibly) for the first time this year. Here’s a series taken between 9:45 and 11:10. It’s now (11:40) set again behind the southern hills.
Category Archives: Sun
The sun is back
I noticed this morning sun shadows on the wall behind my back in the living room! YES, the sun is back. A whole week of cloudy weather after the sun was due to rise again above the southern horizon, so it wasn¨’t until today we could finally be sure that the sun was back, but there was only a small break in the clouds and it was soon gone again. However, spring is definitely in the air and two great tits (kjøttmeis) have been singing in the garden the last two days and a blue tit (blåmeis) joined them a couple of times! Good times!
Red sky rainbow
An unusual combination of red skies and a rainbow over Forbordsfjellet as the sun set last night just after the last visitors on the year’s last official garden tour had left…the grand finale!
I’ll never tire of that view!
Woken at 5:58 am by the first rays of the sun and bird song as warmer weather has arrived at last.
Basking again
Apologies to all who contacted me wondering if I was alright as I hadn’t posted for a month! No alarm…I’ve been very focussed on writing a series of 10 articles on perennial vegetables, completed earlier this week!
Finally, we could “bask” in sunshine again this morning after a few days of overcast and snow meant that we wouldn’t witness the return of the sun (due around 10th January). It doesn’t rise above the southern hills for 4-5 weeks here….a great time of the year as we get several hours of red skies each day.
The firs(t) of many sunrises in 2021:
The sun’s rays reflecting from Malvikodden:
Fully risen through trees in the garden:
A few pictures from when we were in the midwinter tunnel (aircraft contrails have been an unusual site):
One of the last sunrises
One of the last sunrises of 2020 as we will soon go into the tunnel until around January 10th…the longest night!
Fiery skies over a place called Hell
There were crazy fiery skies towards the east where the village of Hell is this morning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway). Sorry, but trouble is brewing!
Autumn on the way
It felt really autumny early this morning with geese moving, cranes (trane) calling in the distance and fog hanging over Stjørdal.
This week’s fjord views
The night has become dark enough again after a 3 month pause for the moonshine to reflect in the fjord again!
Forbordsfjellet sunrise day
The position of sunrise on the horizon changes rapidly here, perhaps 5 degs. every week. Twice a year sunrise happens close to the peak of Forbordsfjellet the mountain on the other side of the fjord from the house. I’d never captured this event on camera before…until yesterday:
