ABC - O

My dear readers,
new week and ABC challenge in Words and Pictures.

This week - Letter O

“O” is the fourth vowel and represents inner strength.

People with this letter in their name are well read and cherish the books from which they learn. The love of education in all aspects drives them.

These people are usually quite .... read more

(My regular readers do know my extra challenge is to find words/objects that are the same in English and Norwegian.)

This week the main solution for me was very Easy:

Oslo - Oslo, Capital of Norway, where I live.

As a Capital in a Royalty, we have of course the Royal Palace. Read more

Oslo was founded around 1000 AC. Nobody knows for sure the origin of the name.

In the past decade Oslo has grown signficantly and has a population of allmost 600.000. Read more... in your prefered language

In down town Oslo there is severall waterfalls. Here is one of them.

Here is from a Cybercruise to Oslo (my blog back in 2007)
Read it and you will find blogger friends from most parts of the world interested in Norway and Nordic traditions. It's an easy way to find new and inspiring friends.

The second choice is the new Opera - Opera in Oslo.

From Opera to Orchestra - orkester

Here the Bend in the River Big Band Orchestra from Minneapolis/St. Paul playing in Fauribalt, Minnesota, USA - 2008

Here you see the Moon Over - over the Oslofiord and Hills

Before we finnish with the letter O let's have a look at a shape:

Oval - Oval

Who is trying to take a self-portrait in the Mirror? *giggles*

Now we will have a happy end with the letter O:

Orchid - orkide

The original ABC challenge derived from Denise Nesbitt from Yorkshire in England and Petunia brought the challenge to Norway

Click on this Link - lenke to see more fascinating ABC-O

See you next week in P?

TT - April 24 - 2008

Hello,
hope my dear readers have missed me and felt a very empty life lately. LOL.
No, no, no. that's not me. I do love you all;)).

So here TT 13 for this week:

1. I'm alive
2. New Job
3. New challenges

4. A sign of spring on the Balconny - in fact Orchides brought from Bangkok a month ago by Solvi.

5. Even for the Cats love the Spring - this is Rosa at our Winterhome Balconny
6. Miss all my blogger friends - by the way: Have you read this one from Oslo?
7. Fishcakes with green and yellow beans for dinner ++
8. Been on the Balcony in Winterhome from around 5:30 pm to 7 pm the last days licking the Sunshine. Then back to work. (Have photos - but *giggles* - we are Sunlovers)
9. Cats are in and out from the Balconny - they find it a bit fresh in the shadow
10. Very noisy to day - grinding of the bricks just outside my home office window
11. Had to shop butter for my lunch (+++ papa goes shopping - hahah), nothing left in the fridge.

12. Did calculate the price for our next Christmas Seminar (Cruise between Oslo and Kiel in Germany) today. It's more complicated than you believe. Spouses and what's included and what's not. Here is part of the Ship. As combined Car-ferry and Cruise Ship, the largest of it's kind in the world. Lot's of Conferences on board. (Germans and Norwegians)
13. Hope the weather this weekend will allow us to prepare our Summerhouse and Garden

Miss you all. I'll come back more regulary as soon as possible.
But you know, for some is work first priority. No alternative to discuss.

Have a great weekend. Maybe I'm back, shortly, on Saturdays Photohunt: unique/funny signs
(My portrait? Who knows?)

Glass and Orchides

Ingelin's mother gave us these orchides, she had bought in Bangkok and brought back to Oslo. When we were Catsitters for Stompa

We had to put them into a GLASS Vase to see these beautiful flowers from Top to toe. It's even a GLASS Window behind. Hurray;-))

More Photo Hunter GLASS here.