Photo Friday: A Cruise on the Sognefjord

July 18, 2014August 14, 2014 / Lon Hetrick / 3 Comments

Good Friday to you!

Here’s the fourth in our series of photo galleries from our trip to Norway in May. These photos were taken on our cruise of a small part of the Sognefjord (starting at Flåm on the map to the right). It was as perfect a day as you could wish for, and there was so much to see that I’ll share another cruise photo gallery next week.

Let us place our hope in the God who made the mountains march down to the sea.

Enjoy!

(btw—today is Dawn’s birthday. Would you leave a “happy birthday” in the comments for her? Please? And thank you!)

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Great place for a family photo

Beautiful day for a cruise

Notice how small the ship looks?

Notice the shack next to the waterfall

Does this count as a town or a village?

I enjoy trying to capture birds in flight

Ooooo…

Ohhhhhh…

Ahhhhhh…

Imagine living here?

Or here?

My favorite Norwegian

Photo Friday: Best Walk Ever (Flåm and Lunden, Norway)

July 11, 2014August 14, 2014 / Lon Hetrick / 4 Comments

Good Friday to you!

Here’s the next in our series of photo galleries from our trip to Norway in May. These photos capture my favorite moment of our trip, an early morning 5 kilometer walk—just Dawn and me—through the villages of Flåm and Lunden at the head of the Sognefjord.

Some of my favorite photos are here, too. Enjoy!

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Field and Farm

Field, Farmhouse, and Mountain in Lunden, Norway

Close up of the farmhouse

Sheep under the mountain

Village on the Hill

water streaming down from a mountain in Lunden, Norway

Mountains falls

Flåmskul (Flam School) looking South

Flåmskul (Flam School) looking North

Wild Violas in Lunden

Wildflowers

Snow melt running through wildflowers

Flåmkirke, ca. 1677. Still in use.

Interior of the Flåm Church, 1677, still in use, now in Lunden, Norway.

Flåmkirke interior

Dawn ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎ Norway!

A cottage in Lunden

Side garden softened like a painting

Photo Friday: Oslo to Myrdal to Flåm

July 4, 2014August 14, 2014 / Lon Hetrick / 1 Comment

It’s Photo Friday Fourth of July!

May your Independence Day weekend be full of fun, food, fireworks, friends, and family.

Here’s a photo gallery from the first half of our Norway in a Nutshell tour in May, 2014. We left Oslo by train, changed trains at Myrdal Station, and arrived several hours later in the village of Flåm, at the head of the Sognefjord.

Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

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