This is ELLEN

This is ELLEN.
She followed me yesterday when I walked around the area Old Stavanger.
She seemed happy and playful, and even showed me her front door.
Two neighbors on the other side of the road told me her name.
I guess it is important for cats too to have good and friendly neighbours.

A mural.

A mural seen at Østre Bydel.

The weather today.

The weather today, Sunday 29th. of January 2017.



The day when the Norwegians won SILVER medals at the world championship handball final in Paris.
Well done Norway!
And of course well done to France as well who took the GOLD!

Which book do YOU recommend others to read this year?

Last year I became so fascinated about a small book, about SILENCE. It was one of very few books I read in 2016. (This year I hope to read several books)
I saw it in the bookshop, it looked different, but reminded me of French books with the white cover, and I flicked through it and decided that it would be NUMBER ONE to read.

The Norwegian author Erling Kagge is absolutely not an A4 person. I mean this positively. (Google the name.)
What is silence ? - Where is it ? - Why is it more important than ever?
Three questions and the author tries to give 33 answers.....

The book rights have been sold to at least 10 countries, so do ask for it, if you are interested.

Let us see if there will be possible to make a long list of book recommendations for 2017.
Please add your choice in the comment section underneath.

On top of the hill.

Running a blog, makes me more interested in finding out the details about things I see.
Here is one of them.
Do you see the artistic horse up on the hill? Well, I rang Sandnes council and even sent the image, but no info. from them, apart from that it did not belong to Sandnes. They suggested that I should try Klepp and Sola. I rang to the council at Klepp, but the guy there told me that the place was definitely Sandnes, but the art was bought by Statens Vegvesen, (the state road authority) so I rang and rang and rang to their office, spoke to several people there, and one of them will try to find out about it and contact me.
Time will tell.....

Roof tops.

Roof tops and the mountains on the other side of the fjord.
Photographed on a sunny but cold day, so obviously not today.

Just a bit of light.

Sometimes a hole in the clouds and a bit of sunshine can make a big difference!