🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a great Monday and start of yet another new week❣️ 😄 That rainy evening Mother Nature managed to persuade the weather gods to push away some clouds to let the sun through for a few minutes, - pretty beautiful isn't it?

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Hope you'll all have a peaceful and relaxed Sunday❣️ I like the tower and spire of Oslo Cathedral - I think it's beautiful! 😏 The power cable for the trams disturbed an otherwise nice photo of it with the glowing setting sun as background...

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Wishing you all a great #Caturday❣️ 🐈‍⬛ Luckily, feral cats are a rare sight in my neighborhood – hope this one was a domestic cat only out for a walk! It lay perfectly still on the stone wall and let passersby pet it, but seemed quite shy and refused to show its face.

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Happy Friday to all of you❣️ 😄Flowers from me to you for this weekend: - Today I chose some beautiful bright pink water lilies I found in "my" duck pond earlier this week!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a great Thursday❣️ 😓 Oslo is hot today - 93 ° F. If I were a mallard lady I'd probably spend my day like this: 😅 Floating and half asleep in some pond - and I wouldn't even bother to open my eyes if a fish jumped in the water right in front of or next to me...

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a wonderful Wednesday❣️ A small pink beauty for you for this #RoseWednesday. 😄 I don't know what the rose is named - and I actually don't care, - I'm just admiring its beauty and its lovely smell...

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Happy Tuesday❣️ 😁 Life isn't just football and rowing! - There are other things too - like discovering new "stuff" in our city: Sculpture "Melting the frost away" (2026) made by Norwegian sculptor and child welfare educator Kari-Lena Flåten on the city's parade street...

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a fantastic Monday❣️ Our vikings made touchown on Norwegian soil a few minutes ago. An audience with the King awaits, 😄followed by royalties participating in rowing at Slottsplassen together with thousands of fans... Yup - we ARE very proud of our guys! 📹: TV2/NRK

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Wishing you a peaceful and relaxed Sunday❣️ Our Norwegian vikings are headed home... 👏 But what an amazing journey it has been - watching THEM play soccer while fans home and abroad 😅 "peacefully" gather, unite, sing and row in support of our team! Wow! 📷: David Yarrow

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Happy Friday everybody❣️ 😓Oslo today - 90° F... 😅 Let me just tell you that it's not easy to look as cool and fresh as this daisy on a scorching hot day! (In Norwegian this flower is called "prestekrage" - priest's collar.)

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a lovely Thursday❣️ 👏 Yup - Mother Nature did it again! - She 🖌️ painted the sky and the clouds in wonderful colors at 4 o'clock this morning! She's an incredibly gifted artist, - isn't she?

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a great Wednesday❣️ On this #RoseWednesday I have chosen to give you a beautiful Westerland rose from Oslo City Hall garden. 😁 You'll also find these roses in front of Stortinget (the Parliament) - which probably is why they've been nicknamed the parliamentarian rose.

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Happy Tuesday everybody❣️ From my visit to the duck pond a couple of days ago: A very proud mallard mom with her entire flock - eleven incredibly cute tiny fluffy ducklings 🥰.

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a lovely Monday - and new week❣️ Cityscape: 750 meters of Oslo's parade street - the day after. 😁 Many of you have probably seen videos/photos from last night - when this street was packed with happy, crazy rowing Norwegians celebrating that our Vikings beat Brazil...

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Wishing you all a wonderful Saturday❣️ And to everybody celebrating Independence Day today - happy 4th of July!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Happy Friday to you all❣️ 😅 I don't know if it's just my at times childish imagination running wild again, - but have you ever noticed that the colors and patterns on a pansy's flower sometimes may resemble a slightly grumpy looking face - like on this one?

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a great Thursday❣️ This day actually started out ok - my balcony view at 4.15 this morning. 🤨 But while I was asleep, our weather gods gathered lots of gray clouds, turned on the water and lowered the temp a few degrees... Yup - Oslo's having a chilly, rainy day!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Hope you and yours have a lovely Wednesday - this very first day of July this year❣️ 😄 I'm giving you these beautiful yellow roses from what some of us call the King's Garden (officially known as Slottsparken, the park surrounding the Royal Palace in Oslo). #RoseWednesday

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Happy Tuesday❣️ 😅 Norwegians have gone crazy - look at all those football (soccer) fans sitting in front The Royal Palace in Oslo cheering and rowing, - our Norwegian Vikings just won a football match... Yeah - we are pretty proud of our boys! 📷: Krister Sørbø, NRK

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a great Monday and start of this new week❣️ Hope you all had a great weekend! 😄 I think this is the first summer that the people who maintain/take care of this neighborhood park have chosen not to mow the entire lawn - probably to the great delight of lots of insects!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a lovely Thursday❣️ 😄Yess - finally! It wasn't until I zoomed in on my photo of the apparently napping mallard lady at the opposite side of the duck pond, I noticed what I've been waiting to see: - At least two (hopefully there's more) 🥰 adorable sleepy ducklings!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Gorgeous rose Nick! Happy #RoseWednesday

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday❣️ 😄 I'm 100% sure that this gorgeous rain-soaked pink cluster rose I found outside my local florist a few days ago already has found a garden somewhere in the neighborhood to grow and thrive in! #RoseWednesday

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Happy Tuesday❣️ 🤨 I don't know what's going on in "my" duck pond - I've never seen this amount of green algae there before. The mallards and I just have to console ourselves with the sight of hvite and pink water lilies starting to bloom... PS - No signs of flag blue paint!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a great Monday and start of this new week❣️ 😄 I saw the balloon lose altitude, then I realized it was about to land somewhere nearby – but I didn't expect it to land between those trees... Luckily no injuries to people, balloon or trees!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have a peaceful and relaxed Sunday❣️ This tree is surrounded by gravel, is the first to lose its leaves in the fall - and the last to turn green each spring. 😄 But it's the only one in my neighborhood that adorns itself with a beautiful red clover "shoe" every summer!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have an amazing Saturday❣️ We see them many places - fences filled with all kinds of padlocks. 😄 I suspect this fence was recently "cleaned", - just a single padlock there today. I'm pretty sure that in a few weeks it will be filled with new "padlocks for 💕love" again...

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Good Friday❣️ The pigeon up in the tree was incredibly chatty, – since I don't speak pigeon, I actually don't know if it was somehow saying happy Friday – or if it was just expressing irritation at the two-legged creature (me) standing under the tree staring at it... 😄

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Wishing you all a wonderful Thursday❣️ Had to take a few days break from the computer... 😄 I love the sight of the gorgeous rhododendron bushes when they bloom - and it seems I'm not the only one!

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Have an amazing Saturday❣️ A single flower for you today: 😄 The first bright yellow lily of this year in bloom in our local park. Lots of buds on the rest of the plants indicate that we'll soon enjoy seeing an "ocean" of these beauties near where I live.