Archive for November, 2007

The art book of paintings by Heðin Kambsdal arrived today, and soon it will be in the bookstores. I have a few copies, so call or email me if you want to buy one.
Here are some pictures of a nice day in Fuglafjørður.

It has taken two years and three months, but it is finally happening. The book of paintings by Heðin Kambsdal will be in the bookstores in the Faroe Islands early next week. From the hundreds of oil paintings he had made during the past thirty years, he selected about 120 that he wanted […]

This is for Alex, and all the other boys who like machinery and heavy equipment. When Alex (my niece’s son) received a truck with a crane on it for his third birthday, he was delighted - grinning from ear to ear.
Walking around Fuglafjørður the past few weeks, I started noticing that cranes […]

Í dag, I drove bil míni til Havnar at vitja my cousin Ninna. She speaks a little English, og eg tala føroyskt eitt sindur. Eg gloymdi my dictionaries, and my ensk-fðroysk orðabók og my Faroese-English dictionary, were left behind in Fuglafjørður. I started studying Faroese when I was 59. Ninna byrjir […]

After having my little house battered endlessly by howling wind, rain, snow, sleet, and more wind, I awoke this morning to the sounds of birds chirping in my garden. Here, with my deepest respect, are pictures of nameless birds, who don’t let hurricane winds discourage them at all. There is a family of […]

Schools are closed in Fuglafjørður today because of the storm, and most of the busses have stopped running. There have been gusts of wind up to 125 miles per hour in Kambsdal, the town just a mile or so up the road. I think I will stay home today.
This morning I have been […]

For several mornings in a row I took a picture of the bay from my windows. In the early morning light, the bay waters reflect the mountains, the sky, and the clouds. This morning, the weather changed every few minutes, and we had rain, sun, hail, snow, and rainbows. Here sre some […]

I am not very good at guessing the weather here in the Faroe Islands, and the weather forecast from the newspapers or the internet is only a rough approximation of what may or may not happen.
Sometimes the weather is very local, and the weather will be clear in the Fuglafjørður bay, but just […]