Winter fog / spring contrasts

Winter fog / spring contrasts in Oslo, Norway - images of the same trees/landscapes taken in winter and spring. Lucky to be here and experience such dramatic changes in a matter of couple of months!

Oslo in the fog

My best photo ever yet!

Thanks to Visit Oslo that shared this photo on their facebook page, the photo travelled the world and got more the 1,800 likes and 220 shares. Incredible to share my experiences with so many people all around the world!

Incredible Oslo's whiteness

Wild wild Oslo

Oslo is the smallest European capital with a population of only 600,000. It means that it takes one just 20 minutes on the train to be on the outskirts of the city and be in the wild. Be on the top of the hills surrounding Oslo and observe its beauty from the top.

Winters are amazing in Oslo, simply because it is so different to summers. Out in the woods, there is hardly anyone without their skies on. I tried to walk my usual path up the hill the other day, and it just didn't work/wasn't as pleasant, as all the Norwegians were giving me a strange looks of 'why is she walking, not skiing.. foreigner..'. And I was the one to give way every other second. I am getting skies next time. I still love my Oslo, so peaceful, so quite, idyllic. Will crave more of civilization soonish me thinks. Too good can't last for too long :)

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

Snow

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

New Hampshire

1923

On Edvard Grieg (Norwegian composer)

Grieg’s collaboration with poets brought him into contact with some of the most romantic of all Norwegian literature, the sagas, folk tales and legends. However, Grieg also had a deep love of nature, he liked nothing better than hiking in the mountains around Bergen and up from Sogn through Jotunheimen. There, in the domain of the trolls, he found challenging peaks, which afforded him splendid vistas, shimmering, iridescent glaciers and tranquil plateaus, where he became acquainted with the Norwegian folk culture.