120/366 Reaching towards the sun

Just a yellow, sunny, warm spring shot for you all.

119/366 Growing to become a leaf

Yesterday was a cold and bleak day, but suddenly the sun broke through and I had a lovely walk in the afternoon. I saw a lot of spring signs, and I must say I love tree buds so I chose one of those for the blog.

118/366 Growing up

Not the best shot, but I liked the green among the grey and brown. A last minute thing for Friday – a grey day with rain showers.

117/366 Growing love

Today I have just a snapshot of my tv screen to share with you. But it’s a snapshot filled with love. Last week the trial after the terror attacks in Oslo and at Utøya last  summer started. One terrorist bombed the government buildings in Oslo and shot and killed almost 70 young people at a youth party camp at the small island Utøya. In total 77 persons died July 22 2011. A few days after the attack hundreds of thousands of people in Oslo and all over Norway came together to show that love and roses  can conquer hate. Last week the terrorist mentioned a particular song that he means is an example of what he calls “marxist brain washing of children in Norway”. That song is “Barn av regnbuen” – a Norwgian version of Pete Seeger’s “My Rainbow Race”. The Norwegian lyrics is by Lillebjørn Nilsen, and it’s a well-known children’s song.

Today people again took to the street with roses and love. Two women startet a campaign on Facebook, wanting people to come together and sing this song. 4000 said they would like to come. Today more than 40 000 people gathered to sing this song together, lead by Lillebjørn Nilsen who also came with greetings from Pete Seeger. Afterwards they all went together to the court house to place their roses there. Also in other cities and towns all over the country people gathered to sing this song together.

115/366 Cress

Growing cress in the kitchen window. To me cress is a real sign of spring. In Norway it is something that most sow in kindergarten and elementary school around Easter time. My son bought it home for Easter and it has been growing ever since then.

114/366 Growing blue beauty

As you may have understood from my posts, spring has not come very far in the region where I live. It’s a bit sad really, but at least every now and then we have some really beautiful sunny days. I hope we can finally get some warm days too when May arrives in a week.

Mondays means new theme. This week’s theme is “Growth”. This lovely blue flowers are growing right outside our apartment building. I unfortunately don’t know the name of this, so if anybody out there knows, please tell me.