Archive for December, 2007

From my window I can see the opening to the Fuglafjørður bay, and across the sound to the mountains on Borðoy. Just behind this mountain is the city of Klaksvík, the second largest city in the Faroe Islands. Often the weather is different in the sound than it is in the protected bay. […]

Today is the first day of winter, officially; but we have had winter weather here for a while. There is a lot going on in the Faroe Islands in December. I sang with two choirs this fall, and each of them had a concert on a Sunday afternoon and also sang for a […]

Yesterday I received very good news. I met with the editors from the company that publishes school books, and they have agreed to publish my book next year. The book tells the story of finding my family in the Faroe Islands eighty years after my father left, as a young sailor. It […]

Here are some pictures from November that are finally making it onto my website. For a couple of weeks my energy has gone to getting the book of paintings out on the market and battling some unfriendly virus. I think I am back to normal, now.
I have no television in my house, so […]

I’m a little late in my reporting, but I will show you anyway. The first day of December was the day that the sun almost rose over the mountains, but didn’t quite make it. The morning was beautiful and clear, but the mountain was too high. My house and most of my […]

The two rams who had been living in the sheep house next to my basement left a little over a week ago. The rams and ewes are kept separated until the end of November so that the new lambs will be born during the last part of April and in May. These two […]

Heðin’s new art book is officially launched with the book signing at the Ribarhús exhibit hall in Fuglafjørður. We borrowed about 18 paintings from the book from friends and neighbors in Fuglafjørður, and they are on exhibit for a week. There was a nice crowd of people there for the whole evening. […]