Archive for April, 2007

As usual, my trip to the Faroes was too short, and I was scheduled to fly home to San Francisco on April 22 and 23. Just a day or two before I left, I received word that my brother-in-law in Dallas had died, so I booked a flight to Dallas for the 24th.
On Sunday, […]

On the way to the airport, I wanted to visit the small village of Gásadalur on the island of Vágar near the airport. The village sits in a high valley with high mountains on three sides and steep cliffs on the other. The tunnel to the village opened just a short time ago. […]

Driving along the road in town, I spotted these icicles, formed from the dripping rain water. The mountain tops around the bay have snow on them again.
Tomorrow I will leave the Faroe Islands and return to my home in the San Francisco Bay Area. The month here has passed quickly.

Most of the stone walls in Fuglafjørður have been created by the same man. He is currently working on making a path along the creek near where it enters the Fuglafjørður beach. He drove me to the other side of the town to see a project he completed recently. He created a […]

Ingimund invited me to come see his hobby - feeding sheep. In the winter, the sheep are brought down from the high mountains to the fields near the town. This time of year there isn’t enough grass on the hillsides for the sheep, and they are fed hay and wheat supplements enriched with […]

The Gøta church had its confirmation service this past Sunday. I spent most of the day with the family of one of the girls who was confirmed, first at the family dinner for 50 people at her aunt’s house, then at the open house in her home. Here are a few family pictures.

Some days it is spring, and some days it is winter. Here are some spring flowers from a day when it was spring. People take good care of their gardens here, and this time of year new flowers are starting to bloom in gardens all around the town. The hills are still […]

Easter week is a busy time for the Faroese churches. On Palm Sunday, many churches had confirmation, when 14 year olds confirm their faith. This is a big event, and most families have a party or open house for most of the day. One parent mentioned to me that they had 170 […]

We had more than a week of warm sunny weather, but I knew it wouldn’t last forever. We had a day of windy weather, which seemed to bring some clouds with it, and now we have some snow, coming just halfway down the mountains. It is a good day for sitting inside and […]

A few days ago I, when the weather was warm and sunny, I decided to walk around to the opposite side of the bay and take a few close-up photos of the ships, the harbor, and the factories that I can see from my windows. I took two only pictures before the battery in […]