You were not saved by:
Silver
Gold
Traditions
But
With the precious blood of Christ… who had already planned this before the foundations of the Earth were laid.
It is Jesus who helps you believe in God, and God raised Jesus from the dead so that your faith and hope may be in God.
1 Peter 1: 18- 21 ( Sandy’s own wording if you like read it and make it your own. You always have freedom of choice with God beware of those who force.)
This post is divided into three: Novik, a contrast in weather, a tribute in photographs to the silver birch and water as seen in Norway , and travel through Lapland Sweden. We will stop 100km north of the Arctic circle.
Our evening was misty, cold and rainy. Some young children jumped out of their car to run in the spray and scream a welcome. The sun would have done just as good a job. A high mountain looking over Narvik, a town known for the Battle of Narvik, lay peacefully under a grey cloud as the powerful jet of spray went up
It was in the morning when I took Bess for a walk that I could see some homes and a church yard. Let me show you their wooden pale walls and the charcoal grey of the church.
the lilacs are starting to bloom,
as seen on the large shrubs in front of the church. The snow patches are large on the mountains, and the houses are closed to the weather.
A tribute to the sea in photographs: six of the sea, one a mix , one fresh from the snow.
A tribute to the silver birch.
Size : medium
Bark: Golden brown at first then white and peeling off.
Leaves: roughly triangles with serated edge
Flowers: Catkins
Seeds: light winged, so spread by the wind. They say the tree line is spreading about 30m a year.
Norways blue - green,black, creamy pink and white
Water and the silver birch
A place of contrast
Harshly carved by time and softened by foaming white falling water on granite black
and white bark on black
The water and the tree.
Time lies folded into surfaces and skims light back to the sun
A world of light no night
A world of dark no day.
Our world at its top
More green, more powerful, more habitable and rich than I ever expected!
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By
Sandy 🙂
We leave Narvik and are soon going through Kiruna. We notice the trains carrying iron ore from Kiruna to Narvik. Kiruna is home to Europe’s largest iron mine. This countryside is in the far north of Swedish Lapland and has vast amounts of the black hardy material.
Here are some thoughts using the word iron:
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain
Iron rusts with disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
We are in Sweden now.
Take care,
Sandy 🙂
“Our world at its top
More green, more powerful, more habitable and rich than I ever expected!”👍🏻👍🏻
Looks nothing like our Antarctica – I’m surprised!
Good quotes too!
Yes, like paint sometimes makes it own shape, so do words.