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May 2014 with Larry and Ruth






stave church at Folkemuseet

crab tree in the Frogner area



the royal family waving



Rus buses parked out front of Vigelandsparken


Kolsåstoppen

gate made from skis

the ski jump at Lillehammer


from the 1994 Olympics




stabbur at Teigen Gard where we stayed two nights











Pasque flower - pulsatilla


Larry built this mini-snowman

some very old inscriptions, hard to believe they could be there so long


Smiugjelsøygarden











“base camp” lodge on Galdhøpiggen

Galdhøpiggen, the highest mountain in Norway










Teigen Gard


Stave church at Lom

The founder of the local Sparebank




Claims to be the best bakery in Norway

Bøvra in Lom









somewhere between Lom and Geiranger

on the way down to Geiranger



Geiranger


Hole Hytteutleie, we stayed here two nights










Peter the Snowplow, retired since 1968 if memory serves





starting on the ferry to Hellesylt

Seven Sisters waterfalls




view from Hellesylt harbor


an abandoned farm





our cabin at Geiranger



this waterfall was quite near our cabin





old Hole farm stead, partway up the hill

they say somebody painted this on the side of the barn one night, artistic grafitti I guess but not related to the Hole family





pointing to where the avalanche came from, which destroyed this farm in 1907, prompting a couple of others to abandon their farms too





another abandoned farm, higher up the hill, which it turned out was not in so much danger from avalanches after all





somebody made this watercolor painting in the guest book



Paige car which was in use carrying tourists around Geiranger a long time ago











the Mannheller-Fodnes ferry


Larry says these are Scottish cows, but I heard there is a Scot who started a brewery in Flåm; I wonder if they are his


view over Flåm




“Route book for the crofter railroad between Flåm and Myrdal. Valid up to and including doomsday.”

Made in Oslo at Thune. During the war. Hmm…



A coworker found one of these bayonet light bulbs in use in the storage room at his apartment.


on the “road” from Flåm (most of the way) to Myrdal



another scary one to drive over

and then we walked the rest of the way up to Vatnahalsen

back down again



relaxing on Langøyene