Yesterday I took a new tour to this Beauty together with my sister and brother-in-law. We walked the Roof, and saw tourists, lunchers, sunbathers, workers and all enjoying the white marble, enormous mirrors by the windows, the closeness to the sea and sky.
N is for Neither in that week Nor the week thereafter, when you do the P may I be able to participate
So Not anything more - Nope!
All these medicines are necessary to keep the alien organs under control and make my body continuously accept the hearth and kidney from the donor. In addition medicines are required to treat side effects and balance one side effect with another.
A Wine Cork, a Beer Can, a Pot with Flowers and some Crazy trophy Figures brought home by my daughter after an evening at Tusenfryd
Have a nice blogging week, and more odd shots can be found at Katneyskaboodle in her blogroll.
Weekend activities starts Saturday night with playing cards in our home with friends (Bitte and Terje) Of course dinner and wines are included.
Sunday morning. Still a little chilly , but working in garden get the temperature up
Rhubarbs growing, se the first picture from Dawn of Spring in March
The raspberry stems are manicured and made ready for the season. At the end og august we have had about 30 kg from these prickly canes.
The countess can rest after the first spring effort this year. The sun is burning. The trash put in sacks. I am at my favorite location, 15 C in the shadow.
Normally we are used to see fire brigades high up in the sky.
During the last weeks we have learned much more of the job these highly qualified persons perform in the effort to save life and property.
For those of you who want new challenges in seeing the world I recommend the Google Earth 4.3 and you may see a Video with some of the features through that link.
Download the Google Earth 4.3 for free and have fun with this new tool! I have.
Somebody may believe it is an Atom bomb hitting target out in the west prior to the building of US Missile Shield. The strength of the sun is however many times the power of that possible mass destruction nuclear weapon, and the sun is extremely dangerous for us with reduced immunodeficiency. Make your UVa and UVb protection cream ready for the season.
My Major M this Wednesday are to focus on Norwegian Mountains. We have a lot of stones in this country, and some of them are so big that they can be called islands or mountains. The above stone is my painting of the island Godøya with the lighthouse from 1876 at Alnes west of Ålesund.
From Ålesund we drive in Hjørundfjorden with the fantastic Sykkylven Mountains east of the fjord, and climb up to Standaleidet and Standalhytta.
From this pass we continue thru Stryn and up the old road as seen towards west from Videseter
At the plateau we have the Stryn summer ski center, and the beautiful green icewater.
After leaving Lom and taken the route against Oslo with Snowkiting at Valdresflya,
before we have the possibility in Oslo to watch the movie The bucket list (in Norwegian: nå eller aldri) with two very great actors. Worth seeing. See it you too.
Some of you will remember that I was one of the members of the development team at Rikshospitalet (National Hospital)´s reconstruction of their Web sites."Rikshospitalets sider har gjennomgående meget høy kvalitet, både når det gjelder innhold, bilder, navigasjon og grafisk design. Rikshospitalet skal spesielt ha skryt for sine hovedtemasider, som setter en helt ny standard for andre lignende organisasjoner i Norge.The project manager (Børge Einrem) and the web designer (Siv Holen) are happy as seen on the photo here:
På tross av en stor informasjonsmengde, har Rikshospitalet en luftig design som hjelper sidene med å fremstå som brukervennlige og ryddige. Fargeprofilen, tekst og bilder gjør en god jobb med å få sidene til å fremstå som profesjonelle, varme og vennlige.
Rikshospitalet har gått fra nettavisform til en side som tydelig har blitt gjennomarbeidet grundig med fokus på brukerne.
En side som Rikshospitalet skal ha spesiell skryt for, er siden for barn og ungdom. Siden bærer preg av høy grad av pedagogikk, gode bilder og gjennomarbeidede tekster, og vil være et svært viktig verktøy for mange.
Rikshospitalet bør være meget stolte over hva de har klart å få til på nettsiden, og over at de vil gå i bresjen for lignende nettsider i Norge.
Gratulerer!"
Congratulation to us all!
Another odd thing is Awards in Bloglandia.
ArneA (Norway) Your passionate work for awaking us to become donors hit us in the head, now and then. You also inform us about transplantations and important stuff and in-between that You show us a great sense of humour, culture and love, and You are an amazing photographer and erotic painter. I am a blood-donor and I will look into if I can give more, thanks to You "keep Up the Good Work"! (My heart You already got *lol*)Thanks!
After a fantastic evening participating in the opening show of the new Opera House in Oslo, Norway, no comments necessary except that the photo is from Dagbladet
Saturdays we always stroll downtown to feel the urban life. On our way from home we meet the challenges connected to using the tram or our feet on the 15 minutes walk . The weather must be extraordinary bad if the tram is our tool, but in the last years city-bicycles are available around the city free for use if you pay 70 nok a year.
Further down to the main street we meet spring flowers in the Royal Garden and see that "Viola Canutta" are already planted at the bottom of the trees at Studenterlunden:
On the top of the hill, before Karl Johan continue down to Oslo Central Station, the old shop selling gloves and hats, "Hallens", are rebuilt into a Restaurant. Three Brothers.
A few yards from this bar and restaurant the very odd Ole Kopreitans peace-wagon with hundreds of buttons is located.
Turning the face towards the Royal Castle again, we visit the Cafe Christiania for a lunch. The Urban Saturday life is normal as usual. Have a nice weekend wherever you are in Norway and around the world.
One of my colleges and friends in the Norwegian Association for Heart Lung Transplants (FHLT) Rolf Berntsen died yesterday after being seriously sick for a long period.
To continue with official Gates or Doors I move to the famous bronze Gates of Paradise at the Florence Baptistry just west of Duomo
The door consists of ten bronze panels from the Old Testament:1. Adam and Eve 2. Cain and Abel 3. Noah 4. Abraham 5. Isaac with Esau and Jacob 6. Joseph 7. Moses 8. Joshua 9. David 10. Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
Environment includes rainy weather, and we had no time to wait for sunshine.
The door is called the face of the house and you can feel that this door wishes you welcome
My own Gate to the world could of course be my laptop, but here I choose the Sony 46 incher on the living room wall receiving TV signals from the whole world.
I also made a photo-video with music by Abba about the whole snow-removing process.
This year the snow has taken a break, even though we have had some volumes for example in February and during Easter. The temperature has, as an average, been a little higher "than normal" and yesterday the street was washed at least a month before the previous years. Instead of snow the trucks moved away lots of mud.
I am indicating climate changes, and accept that something is happening. The big question is if the changes are manmade or occur as a consequence of "normal" variations. The discussions about this will continue. Today I am not part of the Al Gore hysteria. 
Discussions about the opening activities around our new Opera House in Oslo will go on too. A new video was presented by TV2 yesterday, and to all you Graffiti enthusiasts visiting my blog, take look at the video here.
Diego Velazquez´s painting of Gioconda at Prado in Madrid, may get you think of another Gioconda at Louvre in Paris: "The Mona Lisa", but the painting below is made by Velazquez .
L is for Leonardo da Vinci (statue outside Uffizi Gallery in Florence)
In Tuscany there is a lot of wonderful places to visit. This is from the Tower city: Lucca.
In the Basilica di San Frediano in Lucca you can visit the mummified body of Saint Zita.
L is for Lucca, Tuscany, and the birthplace of Giacomo Puccini.
This stilleben was also taken in Italy. The two baskets with fruits I found in the small village Monterosso al Mare.
The Ha'penny Bridge (Irish: Droichead na Leathphingine), known later for a time as the Penny Ha'penny Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge built in 1816 over the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. Originally called the Wellington Bridge (after the Duke of Wellington), the name of the bridge changed to Liffey Bridge, its official name to this day. It is still commonly known as the Ha'penny Bridge. The toll itself was dropped in 1919; before this there were turnstiles either end of it.However, I am also involved in the Odd Shot Monday fellowship.
Before the Ha'penny Bridge was built there were seven ferries, operated by a William Walsh, across the Liffey. The ferries were in a bad condition and he was informed that he had to either fix them or build a bridge. Walsh chose the latter option and was granted the right to extract a ha'penny toll from anyone crossing it for 100 years.
Made of cast-iron, the bridge was cast at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. It was closed for repair and renovations between 2001 and 2003 and was reopened sporting its original white colour. The structure was rebuilt to retain as many of its old components as possible. The repair work was carried out by Harland and Wolff, makers of the RMS Titanic. (Copied from Wikipedia)
An interesting observation from last Sky Watch Friday.
Nobody gave any comment to the recommended video.
The comments was only about the photos.
Does anyone read the text, is SKW only a photoblog.
Why am I participating??
Cheers to you all.
This Saturday I want to take you to a visit to the urban life in Ireland´s capital. The first photo is taken on our visit to Dublin, and participation at the EHLTF Games in 2004. It shows Spire of Dublin (on O'Connell Street). Under the tree to the left you may see the columns at Dublin's General Post Office. Here the fierce fights during the Easter Rising of 1916 took place and paintings from this can be seen in the lobby of DGPO.
Dublin urban life without a Pub visit is waste of time. We enjoyed Davy Byrnes Pub at Duke Street known from JJ´s Ulysses and mr. Blooms visitHe entered Davy Byrnes. Moral pub. He doesn't chat. Stands a drink now and then. But in a leap year once in four. Cashed a cheque for me once.
The oldest Pub in Ireland (The Brazen Head) is also a place to visit, and do not miss the possibility to be qualified as an Authorized Whiskey Taster at Jameson Destillery.
In week-ends you may go to The Merrion Square Art Exhibition which is Dublin’s only free, all year open-air weekend art exhibition.
The Statue of Molly Malone on Grafton Street will probably make you too participate in singing Cockles and Mussels with The Dubliners
and hopefully meet a real urban Dubliner (as described in the more available book by James Joice than Ulysses). This News Paper Man can be met in the Temple Bar District.
This Friday I will give you something of the diversity in my area of origin, Sunnmøre (South-Møre). The name "Møre" is old (Norse Mœrr), and it is probably derived from the word marr m 'ocean, sea'. The meaning is then 'coastal district'.
I had other photos from the same area in this february post, and I have shown the Hip, hip, Hooray photo at least once before in 2007, but with Norwegian text. I think though that it represent both the Sky and the Fellowship meant behind SWF.
For more Sky Watch Friday photos go to Toms site and join
Hundertwasser´s Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg, and the spectacular artist Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet´s houses in Barcelona, are unbelievable and milestones in archetecture development. I strongly recommend you to visit the Catalonian capital to see The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família.
I believe it is almost required that I start this ABC Wednesday - K with Tx-Renis or better understood as Kidney transplantation. Photos of my new kidney and the names behind the donation are not obtainable so just accept that
Last May Tullen and I visited the Capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. The photo is taken from KL Tower and shows the area around our hotel.
When I was growing up almost (more than?) half a century ago, my mother´s most frequented site looked almost like the next photo (taken at Oslo City Museum)
At least once a year my wife and I dress up in our National Costumes. My wife is this 17th of Mai wearing my youngest daughter´s "bunad" from Oslo (she has also one from my native district) and I am carrying the male Bunad from Sunmøre.
The music of today is one of the most famous Norwegian ballads - Ballad of Revolt, dedicated to "Heimefrontens store og små kjempere" Milorg or the national resistance in Norway during the 2nd WW
Perhaps has some of my visitors got a new challenge in reading the posts and writing comments. May be some visitors leave me because of that, but new followers have emerged. Some may have popped up just accidently, and may be the photo fellowships on ABC Wednesday, Odd Shot Monday and Sky Watch Friday are the real reason behind the increase in numbers. 
