flower shooting

After being stuck in the sofa for days Miriam wrote on msn: let's go out, shoot some and then show eachother!
We both went out with our cameras and came back with many pictures:)
Here's some of mine:

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S for STANGE

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This week's letter on the english ABC is S and since I live at Stange(I know, missing the R to be strange) my S will be for Stange

Last october I moved to Stange and into my own appartment for the first time. I've lived away from home since I was 16, but never in my own appartment, I lived 5 years at boardingschools.

17th of may I visited my aunt, and she told me that she and her siblings(except her half sister/my fathers half sister) grew up here at Stange!

From wikipedia:

Stange is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebyen. The municipality is situated on the east side of the lake Mjøsa. It borders the municipalities of Hamar on the north; Løten, Våler, and Åsnes to the east; Nord-Odal to the south; and Eidsvoll to the west.

A statue outside of a building here at Stange

Stange kirke/church, a old and very nice church.
AND THE VIEW over the lake Mjøsa was AMAZING from there!
to bad I didn't shoot it

on the beach

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When i recently was home at Leka i went to the beach one night to shoot a few pics:)
here's some:)

ABC R for RAINBOW

not writing much this time cause it's almost 2a.m. when i post this so just going to post this picture from when i was in Sykkylven celebrating my youngest nephews confirmation:)
it was sunny one minute, raining the next and then sun again = rainbow weather

sunday challange

I answer my own sunday challenge with these lovely pics from my aunts place in Eidsvoll. She's my father's halfsister's halfsister so not really my aunt, but i've called her aunt since i was a little girl

a helpfull little girl

Twice, during the weekend in Sykkylven, my little niece Hanna(4years old) found a broom and started cleaning:P
First time was at the furniture factory Ekornes, where my brother/her uncle works as a shiftleader. And at his sector there's alot of redundant material the workers need to clean up after ended shift, a lady who works there started cleaning and suddently Hanna walked and found herself a little broom and helped her!

The next day we were all gathered at a fastfood place and she saw some stones from a flowerspot and she started picking them up! I told her she could ask after a broom:P i never thought she would! but she did, and she cleaned up:)

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Sykkylven

Since my youngest nephew and "little-little brother" had his confirmation last weekend, i had to go to Sykkylven to take part in his big day. i've already posted pics from the confirmation party so this will be a post with other pics i took during those days:) i occupied my brother Frank's Sony Alpha 200 SLR cam and shooted almost 250 pictures that weekend, my brother have owned the cam for 2 months or so and bearly shooted 50 pics:P

seeing these pics doesn't make u wonder y i dream of owning a Sony alpha 200, does it?

Helge's big day - our confirmation boy 09

From Konfirmasjon 9.5.09

saturday 09.05.09 my youngest nephew had his confirmation in Ikornes Church.
a great, handsome little man had a great day:) a great day where the weather wasn't exactly on our side with some rain.
click on links under collages to see more pics from this weekend

From Konfirmasjon 9.5.09

ABC - Q is for Quotes

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I got a few funny favourite quotes, both said by norwegians and other nationalities.

Here's a few norwegians guys trying to speak english:

Nils Arne Eggen: "It's hope in a hanging snore" (what he ment was a lace, the norwegian word for lace is snøre)

Nils Arne Eggen: "My grammar is bad, but my meaning is very good"

Petter Solberg: "It’s not the fart that kills, it’s the smell"(what he ment was: it isn't the speed that kills, but the bang. The norwegian word for speed is fart and for bang is smell [but yes it can be true the way he said it too:P])

Kjell Magne Bondevik "Thank you for the mess"(after a worship service in Brazil)

Nils Arne Eggen og Jahn Ivar "Mini" Jacobsen:

-«Kan vi ikke avslutte treningen nå? Jeg har vært her siden klokka tolv» (Mini begynner å bli sliten under trening).

[Can we quit training now? I've been her since 12 o'clock! (Mini is getting tierd under training)]

- «Hold kjeften på deg, Mini. Jeg har vært her siden 1960!» (Nils Arne Eggen har liten sympati)

[shut up Mini! I've been here since 1960! (Nils Arne Eggen with low sympati)]

jumping over to an german-canadian Goalie who played for my favourite footballteam ROSENBORG:

Lars Hirschfeld about starting as a goalie "I was on a team with italians and i was the only fat weight german kid. Group of italians decided to throw me in the net and i haven't left it since"

Lars Hirschfeld about a perfect footimatch "A perfect football match would be not seeing one shot. it would be talking to the back 4, everything goes smoothy, communication goes perfectly and i don't even touch a ball"

Lars Hirscfeld about possisions on the field "you are usually the kind of guy that sits in the background most of the time, the strikers are the glory guys, the midfielders are the flare and the glam. my heart goes out to the defenders - they do all the thankless jobs: they guts it of in 90 minutes, tacling, bleeding and sweatting on the field and the poor guys after the end of the game they can shout down one of the best strikers in the world and all they get is a nice little pat on the back. and that's it! A striker can do nothing for 89 minutes and not move of a stamp and he puts the ball in back of the net and they hoisting him on their shoulders and carries him of out of the stadium. Keepers is one of those position, for the most part people, they don't expect us, it's not glory it's not a glamjob, we don't running sliding on our knees to the corner flag, screaming yelling. You keep your mouth shut, you scream at your guys infront of you to do their jobs. That's it. You walk on the field, watch the game for about 90 minutes and you walk of"

When i was 16 i actually met Nils Arne Eggen!

ABC - P for PILLOW

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I was about to give up this P but then a Pillow fell down in my mind and i decided to take this photo of a huge pillow i got:)

My spare duvet and pillows are inside it:P

One of many legends within country, Hank Locklin, sings a song called:
SEND ME THE PILLOW THAT YOU DREAM ON

Send me the pillow that you dream on.
Don't you know that I still care for you?
Send me the pillow that you dream on,
So darling, I can dream on it, too.

Each night while I'm sleeping oh, so lonely,
I'll share your love in dreams that once were true.
Send me the pillow that you dream on,
So darling, I can dream on it, too.

I've waited so long for you to write me,
But just a memory's all that's left of you.
Send me the pillow that you dream on,
So darling, I can dream on it, too.

So darling, I can dream on it, too

He is not the only country legend/artist who sings this song