Happy in Venice !

If you come home as happy as you leave, 

you have had a good vacation!

Silky

When the sun is shining

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining

Spring

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant

If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, 

prosperity would not be so welcome

Destination

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things

Feeling good

Birds flying high you know how I feel 
Sun in the sky you know how I feel 
Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel 
And I'm feeling good 

You are

You're the lighthouse

You're the port in the storm

When I can't swim anymore

You always guide me back to solid ground

You're my lighthouse

Everyone

Everyone is a moon, 

and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

-Mark Twain-

Come what may

Clouds may come, but clouds must go, and they all have a silver lining. 

For behind each cloud you know, the sun, or moon, is shining

A Dreamer

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, 

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world

-Oscar Wilde-

A lullaby moment

Envyers

Respect your envyers. 

They are the ones who knows you are better than them.

It`s time

Bye, bye darlin’

It’s time to go

Got lost in your magic

I longed for you so

It’s hard to grasp

It all will pass

Himmelsk

Snapshot

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away

Dark side of the Moon

There are few human emotions as warm, comforting, 

and enveloping as self-pity. 

And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. 

There is only one answer, turn away from it and move on

Busy days

Travle dager for tiden, så dessverre lite tid til blogging.

Forberedelser til utstillinger, fotooppdrag og salg av bilder tar det meste av tiden.

Men jammen er det kjekt! 

Paristuren ble en snøfull opplevelse. 

Tror ikke Pariserne har hatt så mye snø før som da vi var der nede nå i januar. 

Vi opplevde voksne menn akene i gatene og i full snøballkrig.

Men selv om det ble lite foto da det snødde konstant alle dager til ende,

 så hva gjør vel det :)

Paris er og blir Paris, og når man drar med sin kjære og bare nyter dagene med god mat,

 god vin, herlig kultur og deilig kjærlighet så får foto være foto.

Ha en strålende uke! 

The naked truth

is always better than the best-dressed lie

Above you

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly

Grateful

It’s easy to let days fly by 

without taking notice to the world around you. 

Life is beautiful. 

Soak it in, think about it and be grateful.

Inside

The magic is inside you. 

There ain’t no crystal ball.

The past

The past is a ghost, the future is a dream

And all we ever have is now. 

- Bill Cosby-

Silver shell

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, 

as it needs no explanation. 

It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, 

or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. 

-Oscar Wilde-

From hill to hill

The time draws near the birth of Christ 

The moon is hid

the night is still

The Christmas bells from hill to hill 

Answer each other in the mist

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson-

Go to sleep, Darling

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? 

And then it covers them up snug with a white quilt; and perhaps it says 

"Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again"

Heaven On Earth

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, 
dance like nobody's watching, 
and live like its heaven on earth

-Mark Twain-

Bak Skyene

En sky ikke vet hvorfor den beveger seg i den retningen, og med en slik hastighet.

 Men himmelen vet årsaken og mønstrene bak alle skyene.

Og det vil du også få vite når du løfter deg selv høyt nok til å se utover horisonten.

Himmelsk

Silence

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. 

-Emily Dickinson-

Do it Anyway!

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. 

Forgive them anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.

 Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.

Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. 

Create anyway.

-Mother Teresa-

Thoughts

When I walk down the beach and smell the salt water,

 hear the waves crashing against the shoreline, 

and feel the granular sand under my feet, 

I can't help but realize why I'm here on this green earth

Escape

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

Rett vei

Om æ fikk velge mæ en vei,

som ingen andre hadde gått,

veien var heilt rett,

alltid heilt rett,

tror æ at æ hadde takka nei.

-Kjersti Aune-

Faith

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, 

letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark

We are our choices

A wise man once said you can have anything in life 

if you will sacrifice everything else for it. 

What he meant is nothing comes without a price. 

So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to loose. 

Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. 

The toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming. 

When that happens, when the battle chooses us and not the other way around, 

that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear

Journey

Happiness is a journey

Not a destination

Walking the streets of Montmartre

When I was walking alone, I wished that I can reach the end of the road. 

But when you walked with me, I wished the road would never end 

because I would rather be lost with you 

than reach the end without you

To my dearest Mom

These are my tiny hands 
That play and touch and feel 
Curious to know what it's all about 
Wanting to know what's real 

These are my hands 
Small as they may be 
To touch you and to hold you 
My hands you have given me 
When I am grown, look to these 
Remember how they touched you 
Remember how they held you 
Remember how tiny they were indeed 

Still standing

I'm still standing

I'm still trusting

Still motivated

Fully persuaded

I'm still holding on to what I believe

Geiranger in Hdr

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. 

Then you will see how low it was.

The View

You don’t see things the way they are,

You see things the way you are

And so it is

I am no bird 

and no net ensnares me 

I am a free human being with an independent will . . .

The truth about the truth

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple

And if you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything

So tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you

Looking through you

I see the pain in your eyes that you hide, with a smile to disguise your broken pride 

I see the truth in your lies in the silence of your cries 

You're looking at me but I'm looking through you ...

You're not the same 

No Cure

Though I often looked for one, 

I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

My Love

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone 

who can completely turn your world around. 

You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul 

and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. 

You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, 

goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. 

 You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. 

Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon

Colours seem brighter and more brilliant

You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and 

 a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. 

-Bob Marley-

Yours Alone

You can seek the advice of others, surround yourself with trusted advisers. 

But in the end, the decision is always yours, and yours alone. 

And when it's time to act, you're all alone with your back against the wall. 

The only voice that matters is the one in your head. 

The one telling you what you probably already knew. 

The one that's almost always right.

Sweet the Details

For every Beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
 For every Truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. 
For every Love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

I belive in Beauty, Truth and Love !

By the river of Seinen

So quietly flows the Seine that one hardly notices its presence

Summer Meadow

La Bonne Franquette

 On Montmartre

Live

 

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air