Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I am in love with this time of the year. Picking red, juicy apples from the trees and mushroom from the forests. Planting tulip bulbs and spending the whole afternoon stacking woods. For more inspiration, watch this! Or buy the great book by Lars Mytting “Hel ved” (Norwegian version) from here […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen Finally it is time for mushroom picking and for bringing the cooking up to a higher level. For two days now I have enjoyed searching “the gold of the forest”. It is ever so fun, specially returning home with a basket filled with delicacies. The other day a colleague of mine showed me his Swedish Mora […]
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Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen He was our beloved cat, and we will never forget his faithful devotion and how he winked his eyes in order to show us his truly love. Now his picture is hanging in the hallway, and in that way he has never really left us. It is painted by Randi Kvilaas, a professional pet […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I have a tree in the forest which is all mine. Nobody else knows about it of course, but never the less it is mine. I always stop up and give it a hug when I pass it on my walks. While hugging my tree, I feel close to nature and get inner […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen It gives me peace of mind to watch the birds glide in the sky and see the clouds spontaneously forming patterns.
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen “Dirt, mud, clay, earth, soil: we have many words for it but few do it justice. In today’s virtual world many of us have, literally, lost our connection with the soil. But soil is the earth’s living skin, overlying the bedrock below and making life on earth possible. Like air […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen Why do I display my shells in the window sill in the living-room? Why do I cherish and collect them? Probably because to me they represent the jewels of the nature and one of the greatest wonders. Maybe they remind me of floating face down in tropical water snorkeling long time ago, […]
When we were hiking in the Alps some years ago, I spent days searching for the well-known mountain flower Edelweiss found only at 1800–3000 meters above sea level. I had read that besides being the national flower of Austria and Switzerland, the “noble white” had a kind of wolly petals and a velvet texture to […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen There’s a saying in Sicily that lemons are not real lemons unless they’re Sicilian. The land around Mount Etna, the Mediterranean climate, sunny hot days and cold nights, coupled with volcanic soil, gives the Sicilian lemon a typical sweetness and taste that is very difficult to find anywhere else in the world.By […]
