Hut life

The promise of summer

I didn't deliberately miss the sun's return. The light coming back is a gradual process. So you feel, after the long winter with no rays of light at all on the hut since October... Believe you me, I have been long-anticipating the sun's return, and yet.... often I am away at the weekends...during daytime (see post below, titled 'Sunworship'). I find it so hard to sit in the hut, at minus whatever degrees, just in the dark: Waiting for the sun. So, I go outdoors. Get warm. Anything. Therefore, perhaps I missed the first rays of sun on the hut. And yet I wonder....

It was the last weekend in February, and I was working night shifts at the Asylumottak. Bed at 8am after a night shift seemed a good excuse to be in bed, in the hut, during the day time. In the hut. And so, I awoke, 2pm, to the hut bathed, yes bathed, in sublime sunlight!... yet only for a few minutes....

You may think I'm waxing poetic about this, but it was so warm and light and suddenly the promise of summer was there.

And, although it might um and ahhhh a bit about coming back: once the sun creeps back here, it suddenly isn't so gradual anymore. A few days of teasing past the windows and not quite making it into the room proper. And then, quite unexpectedly, the sun is back. It's here. Mornings are light again, you don't need the head torch to go to the outhouse, you can see your own slippers in the dusky dawn. Small things that make life easy again.

The light is back. And it isn't going to go away again for a while now!

I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I enjoyed experiencing looking through the lens.

Velkommen tilbak til solen

Shall we just say

- the solar panels are charging once again :)

The sun's return to woods near home

Sunworship

(The ski model is named 'Nansen'. It inspires me. But alas, doesn't stop me faceplanting.)

hmm. if you look closely enough you can see the smoke from my hut chimney ;) true

It's always good to get out, and ski near home. Here I am, not 4km from the hut, enjoying sunshine and snow. It's paradise in this weather: I had to ski on, and on, and on....and on... It was hard to come indoors ;)