Eg høyrer på #Luttprisen på #NRK Sogn og Fjordane. Det er så mykje bra. Dette er endå eit prov på at Vestland var eit mistak. #SognOgFjordane

#silentsunday #gaular #norway #norge #vestlandet #sognogfjordane #landscape

Talking about winter, ref last post.

#winter #vinter #høyanger #vestlandet #sognogfjordane #snø #snow #fjordlandskap #naus #vernaculararhitecture

You see a hairpin road, I see mushrooms.

Driving down from my favourite valley in the world, Gaularfjellet in the western part of Norway a couple of years ago, I stopped in one of the hairpins. I probably smelled the mushrooms driving down, because it was unbelievable full of Craterellus tubaeformis (traktkantarell).
Sometimes mushroom hunting is not so much about hunting as it is about stopping.

#Craterellustubaeformis #traktkantarell #mushroommonday #gaularfjellet #sognogfjordane #norge #norway #vestlandet #sopp #landscape #mountains

Ha! My last photo got lots of hearts, and even if it was from a beautiful place in Norway, I thought it strange.
And then I saw it was picked to be on Explore. Can anyone tell me why some photos are chosen to Explore, who decide, on what grounds? Or, is it a secret?

I added another beautiful place in Norway, Høyanger, just to check if all good looking villages are going directly to Explore 😆

Edited: I just discovered another thing. When I look at the web version of Pixelfed, Explore is called Discover and is titled Trending. So, if you have a great photo with few "followers"/viewers your photo will never be shown on Explore/Discover? Mhm.

#høst
#autumn
#høyanger
#building
#cabin
#norway
#norge
#sognogfjordane
#vestlandet
#reflection

#doorsday and #fensterfreitag in one capture.
Again, Solvorn, where the ferry to Urnes departs.

#sognogfjordane
#vestlandet
#høst
#autumn
#norge
#norway
#solvorn
#naust
#architecture
#luster
#fjord
#landscape

Some years ago I moved from Bergen to Oslo, from the western part of Norway to the eastern. I had to move my stuff in winter, and it was a lot of snow. I had visited Borgund stave church at summertime, but never in winter, and as I passed it I saw the possibility to visit it. Me and a lonely motorcyclist (!). I hope he too enjoyed it as much as I did.

Most Norwegian stave churches are in the south and usully by a fjord or inland, somewhere high up in the mountains. Usually in a small villiage who either couldn’t afford a new church or actually thought it worth saving. While they build a larger, warmer church next to it. At some point there was a law requiring that a church should seat at least 30 people, many stave churches couldn’t apply to that and they become obsolete. So, that is how 1300+ became 28.

Borgund is the best saved church we have, and also most famous, perhaps? It is something about how it sits in the landscape, the monumentality of it. It is also the most commercialized, with the most visitors (except for Gol stavkyrkje moved to Oslo perhaps). Borgund is quite accessible from Bergen.

And btw, I am back west …

#borgund
#sognogfjordane
#vestlandet
#norge
#norway
#stavkyrkje
#arkitektur
#architecture
#bygning
#kirke
#church
#landscape

Wood is the Nordic language