The Norwegian word for spring is vår, /vå:r/.
Spring marks the transition from winter into summer. What signals you are judging the time of year after? For me spring is the birds of passages returning, singing, calling out to a mate, lets build and settle. Bumblebees and butterflies searching for nectar in the goat willow. Feeling the sun warm my skin. Seeing the wild flowers in my garden peeking up from the grown.
Another signal that the spring is here, is the midnightsun. It is still some days to we have the full effect. Today the sun raised at 01.51 and it will go down at 23.39.
So for me, where I live in the northern part of Norway, spring comes late and last short. So we must enjoy every minute or you will miss it.
Medium used: watersoluble wax pastel and pencil.
2 comments:
Love your journal page. We are just heading into winter here - it seems so strange doesn't it - mostly everyone's blog posts speak of spring which we won't see for another 5 months or so.
I love every season for it uniqueness but the autumn is the one closes to my hart, it would have been fun being on your part of the world just for a little while...
But you do have the same types of season as we do, winter, spring, summer and fall. When I was teaching Norwegian to refugees we talked about seasons and non of them had seasons like we do. Imagen having rain and hot or cold and dry, only 14 days with a mix when the seasons change...
Enjoy you fall Brenda!
EWian
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