The port of Fuglafjørður plays a significant role in the pelagic fisheries of the North Atlantic. And it might as well be the only harbor world-wide that’s home to a shop selling mohair wool, NoðaStova, the shop that Katrin K. Petersen recently started. You don’t need to be in search of yarn at all, in order to pop in. Café, beach walk, shipwreck …
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Lullaby For A Sheep
Baby blue skies and a pink-colored stripe, an invisible paint bucket is leaking, a sheep’s lullaby, that’s what I saw. The art of surrealism in my mind’s eye. Melting clocks, and so on, because the pink-colored stripe was about to dissolve and loose color drops, a delightful image. What I also saw was Kalsoy, the James-Bond-island henceforward …
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Having A Plan? Basic Rule: Weather First
Wind dancing on the water, our bay. A video I took recently. Weather cinema, front row. 50 seconds of Slow Movement. The Faroes: 18 islands in the middle of the North Atlantic. One archipelago, two basic rules. To begin with: Weather first. And, secondly: A sudden change in weather might take place at any time. Watch the wind’s moves …
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Northern Lights Above Our Village: A Trickle Of The Spell
It had been a run of bad weather. Violent storms hit our village and the islands, one after another, walls and minds shaking. After the last storm of that series, an all-embracing quiet spread. The ocean got calmer, wearing ice-blue again, instead of stormborn-black. The game of chill culminated in the events of last night …
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Wait And See: The Quiet Before The Next Storm
Sitting at my desk, looking out of the window, at the stream that has its source in the mountains and runs through the valley and our village. At present, it’s bursting its banks and floods meadows, while strong winds are building up, the next storm ahead, according to wind apps and weather forecasts …
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Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year!
Season’s greetings from a little village on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic, before everyone’s busy with the important things. Singing, being with family and friends, spending time together; sharing; Christmas cookies, Christmas customs and Christmas spirit. Santa has already been around …
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Drift. Of Snow, Rain, Tempest And Time
Fine weather conditions in recent days? Not exactly. Storm, rain, rain with snow and blowing snow instead. That’s how it was. For one and a half or two days, I couldn’t leave the house. Driving to the supermarket in order to pick up some bread and milk? Impossible. In fact, all sorts of things have been drifting: snow, rain, sleet and time …
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