Easter

(On the "Feldberg", the highest peak of the black forrest)

O power of love, all else transcending

In Jesus present evermore,

I worship Thee, in homage bending

Thy name to honor and adore;

Yea, let my soul, in deep devotion,

Bathe in love's mighty boundless ocean.

Thou art my rest, no earthly treasure

Can satisfy my yearning heart,

And naught can give to me the pleasure

I find in Thee, my chosen part,

Thy love, so tender, so possessing,

I joy to me, and every blessing.

To Thee my heart and life be given,

Thou art in truth my highest good;

For me Thy sacred side was riven,

For me was shed Thy precious blood.

O Thou who art the world's salvation,

Be thine my love and adoration.

Gerhard Tersteegen 1697-1769

(at the graveyard down the road in Norway)

I'm back

First of all thanks for all prayers and well wishing. I got moved by your sweet comments. In periods I have trouble with joint pain, but with warmer weather I start to feel better :)
I'm back to blogging. But aswell back to the house I was born (home births were quite uncommen in the 70's!!!) and lived in my childhood. My parents live still here. A special place to me.

My parents bought this old (build in 1908) teacher's house ca 40 years ago.

It was in a desolate condition. Over the years they added, rebuild and formed the house into a wonderful place to live for their family of eight. In addition our grandparents did live upstairs.

It's located in the Rhine valley, at the feet of the black forest mountains.

It's still spring, but the vetegable garden is prepared and we have already enjoyed some early lettuce.

So fun to have a grandma who has hens.

It's good to be back. 

It's wonderful to enjoy spring.

Be still

Due to a broken camara lens and some health issues I'm taking a little bloggbreak.

"Be still my soul and know that I'm God."

He knows. And he cares.

And even here in Norway spring's around the corner.

(But the pics are from May 2011)

I'll be back. ;)

"new" sofas

Two weeks ago our oldest and I traveled to Bergen. It's an three hours trip and it involves a ferry ride.

I so much enjoyed the company of my big boy.

The trip involved meeting friends and family.

And an afternoon of stolling through the city ALL ON MY OWN (can you imagine what a seldom treat this is for me? - it was the first time I was away from babyboy over night!)

Did I shop? Actually I went to a bookstore and bought a book, found a nice Café, ordered a Cappuccino and read for several hours...

And I went to a certain swedish furniture and other fun stuff store and got a new slipcover for one of the two sofas I bought used (one in Bergen, one here on the island).

That equals two "new" sofas for 190USD/1050NOK and a very happy wife!

Thanks David!

A sunburst mirror made from flower tags

When sunburst mirrors first entered home fashion... honestly, I hated them.

 But it seems even I get influenced by what's "haute couture" ;)

They grew pretty quickly on me.

Especially those made of wood...

In fall I made one of driftwood.

Than I sold it.

So I copied Nester's craft paper eddition.

It was a tad to small on this wall.

Than I saw those cheap flower tags at store (Biltema)...

and I kept my eyes open for a round thrift store mirror.

I played around a while with how to arrange the tags.

After finding how I liked it best, it was just to warm up the hot glue gun...

And voila:

Sunburst mirror 

Nr 3

the fascination of running water

Japan and our living room

Some days ago I cut some bare branches in the garden and look at them now!

Isn't this amazing?

Out of nothing - green leaves, soft pink flowers.

HOPE!

In the background yet another sunburst mirror I made some time ago.

Now it makes me think of Japan everytime I see it.

Land of the rising sun

So does this little bonsai tree.