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The Midnight Sun

Category: Artic Living | Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:20 am

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,,,,,,,has come an gone. But the image is one that doesn't leave you for a very long time. I think if a person believes in miracles then the midnight sun is something of miracle in itself. The fact that we sit ontop of the world an it never sets below the horizon an shines day an night, over an over, is amazing in itself. Everyone believes that the midnight sun only shines like that for one month. Statistically they are right. But here in the artic the sun shines for months day an night, it only gets a little lower in the sky each day. By august we finally get an hour of dark and then its still not totally dark. Then each day it gets steadily darker an darker, with more hours of darkness each night. I took this picture in the beginning of august, so you can see we still had daylight all the time.



The midnight sun, beautiful each an every night that it is up. My dog an I usually go for walks at night when its summer, an when you have to wear sunglasses at midnight, I usually find myself laughing at how bizarre. If anyone seen me they would think I was crazy walking along an just chuckling to myself at how fortunate i am to experience something so awesome as what i see each an every night for 3 months. The guest that come an stay here are simply amazed, an you see them out at all hours of the night snapping photos or just enjoying the late evening an early morning hours. Can you blame them, I live here an still am amazed. I will use the word fairytale over an over again, not only because its my favorite word to describe here but because its the most common word that is used by the guest, men an women alike. I have worked in my garden at night only to have a guest come up an kneel down an start working with me. There is something to this sun that inspires people to do more, but at the same time brings a calm, more relaxed person to the surface. Who knows maybe its just the place, or the sun, or the water that is in constant motion. I like to think that when I am bothered by lifes worries all i have to do is go down to the sea an let it all go. The sea will take it away, an when i do that an the sun is up at 2am, it then becomes almost a religious experience for me. The sheer miracle of seeing the sun when its not supposed to be there, grounds my feet an plants me right here to my fairytale land.

This is a sunset, that lets me know the miracle of summer is now on its way out, but will return again with a full circle made in time.




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The kitchen window

Category: Artic Living | Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:01 am

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,,,is the first place i look when i start each day. I look out to remind myself, that yes this is really my life, an not a fairytale. The view is simply amazing! I have to remind myself over and over that what i see is really what is infront of me. So I will start this blog with the mountain that sits across the fjørd an is part of my front yard.



This is my view from my kitchen window. Amazing isn't it. That mountain is the 4th largest in the Lofotens. I have hiked only a quarter of the way up it, my husband an many of the guests that stay here has made it to the top. I can tell the weather by that mountain. When the fog comes rolling in from the sea, an its thick an heavy, we are goin to have rain. When its thin fog, we have high humidity, but it will be chilly at night, even when its the summer an the midnight sun is goin strong. In winter the Aurora Borealis comes over that mountain when the time is dark 24 hours a day,, an before. When the fog comes in dark an gray, it will snow, alot. If its a thinner gray, then we have just a little snow. I have tried to capture pictures of the northern lights when they dance across the mountain an out to the far reaches of the sky, but my camera just isn't strong enough. On that mountain when the grass is green an the days a very long, we look over at it, an you can see stone faces carved from millions of yrs of artistic sculpuring. The kids an adults that come to stay here on the farm are amazed when we show them the images in the stone. One is a big ol' troll, with big thick eyebrows, slashed eyes, an a huge nose that covers his face an a straight mouth. The others are smaller trolls, with just as eager faces to be seen as the larger is. I have found the profile of an indian face just at the edge of the top slope. In all there is over 13 faces that have come to light and enchanted almost all who find them. The eagles love that mountain i think more than i do. Theres homes are scattered at the top, an when they come down to fish its also another amazing site to see. So I think i probably do live in a fairytale setting, an its something i will never take for granted, as long as I have my kitchen window to remind me of what to expect outside.

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