Archive for May, 2006

Looking through my photos from May, I found several that I thought you might enjoy seeing. They don’t really fit in any category except miscellaneous.
I have been to several concerts in Friedrich’s Church in Toftir, at the southern end of Eysturoy, about 25 minutes drive from here. This was the Mozart Requiem, and […]

When wildflowers start blooming, I think it must be spring. Some of the flowers are similar to the wildflowers from home, but quite a bit smaller. Flowers are starting to bloom in gardens and fields all around the town. Did you know that it is very hard to focus on a small […]

The weather for the past few days has been lovely, with a lot of blue sky and hardly any wind. I almost feel like I should apologize for complaining about the storm over the weekend.
With the nice weather, I decided to walk down the road and visit the sheep grazing in the nearby fields […]

I considered saving time and re-using some of the photos that I took in January of the high winds and blowing snow, because the view from my window (what little I could see) was just about the same. However, last night and this morning the wind died down somewhat, so I got out and […]

Once a year the Faroe Islands has a choir festival, and choirs from all over the islands get together for a long weekend of singing and eating, ending with a concert and a banquet. My choir, the Gøta-Leirvík Choir hosted the event this year, and the festival was held in a large hall in Leirvík, […]

Early May is lambing time, and we see ewes with newborn lambs in fields and along the roadsides all over the islands. It’s not uncommon to see them grazing along the side of the highway or crossing the road.
Bjørghild and Jørmund’s ewes have been grazing in the lower fields near the bay, and during […]

The seasons of the year seem to get all mixed up together in the Faroe Islands, and spring seems to come on gradually, with many starts and stops. We have had several days of calm weather, lots of blue sky, and sun. Last weekend we also had lovely weather for my birthday party. […]

For the past six months I have been watching the progress on a new stone wall around a small parking lot on my street, just a short distance from my house. Any sort of construction project in the Faroe Islands must make accommodations for the constant rain. This stone wall includes a man-made […]

If you are going to have a birthday with a big zero at the end of the number, I think the Faroe Islands must be the best place to be. People here know how to give birthday parties, and they really enjoy themselves in the process. We invited only my first and second […]