norway – TRAVELING NEAR & FAR

Ski Jumping in Vermont

Brattleboro, Vermont is home to the historic Harris Hill Ski Jump where local and international jumpers compete annually during Winter Carnival

Deep in the gray of early December, bright starlit night skies. The recent snowfall, just enough to cover the ground

Back home in Vermont, the early morning light emerging from the darkness, the air clear after a long period of

Oslo. A town barely known to me – even though Norway is my homeland. And this trip – all too

A whirlwind tour of the Jotunheimen and Gudbrandsdalen regions of Norway last week took us along broad sweeps of verdant river

Though we arrived and departed Newfoundland in the fog, and were often enveloped by waves of fog rolling in from

Part of a speech from Norway’s Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, made on the day of the tragic events in Norway.

Drizzly again today in Helsinki, and across the Nordic countries. In Norway, hopes are high for sunshine and warm weather.

Patches of blue emerging this morning, high hopes for sunshine and warmer temperatures. Yesterday, enchanted by the white velvet spring snowscape,

Sunny and the promise of warmer weather today. The return of geese heard overhead – spring must surely be coming. My