Last of the apples

I suspect this will be my last swim before I head off to Brussels and beyond.
Since the eplehagen is littered with unpicked apples, I cast a few out to sea.

Patchwork

I'm in a hibernating mood, so the view from my little patch of sand is as much as I care to see of the world these days!

Apple butter

After a gloriously sunny weekend in Trondheim, the grey showers were an anticlimax, but I gathered loads of apples from the Eplehagen and am reducing them to apple-butter on the wood-burning stove as I warm myself up.

Ikigai

Ikigai (life-fruit) is an interest that drives us, rewards us and gives us a sense of self, while also allowing us to lose ourselves in its pursuit. We are advised to make more time for it, and I would gladly have spent hours dipping this small branch in and out of the fjord, were the water not so dangerously cold!  

The sunburst swim-pact

Heavy showers during the day have obligingly given way to sunshine for my sunset swim recently! 

Back from Prague

17.15 and the sun is setting noticeably earlier than this time 10 days ago

Snow & rainbow

Batman for company as I head down this well-trodden path for a last dip before I fly to Prague and Harald to St Petersburg

 

Darker by the day

3rd swim this week and the light cedes to watercolours :)

Autumn has landed

Monday's dragonfly

One year later...

... and so many swims enjoyed in the interim! 

Displacement activity

I keep trying, but not quite succeeding, to get a hero shot! Oak leaves my current focus (or lack thereof!). Am also trying to shorten my dips as the cold feels OK while I'm in the water, but makes it hard to get back to work afterwards. Swims as failsafe displacement!

Nobody knows...

... how cold my toes... A happy splash-about on Saturday, followed by a tow behind the boat ... how cold my toes ... Tiddely-pom!

Dusk daisies in orbit

The sun hasn't stopped shining while I was away, but it's setting much earlier and the water is a good deal colder.

Playing tag!

Short swim during a lull

Flight path

Another serenely sunny day: familiar flights overhead, unfamiliar frost in the mornings.

Sun, wind & snow

A glorious swim in Kvam before a freezing sail across the fjord: the peril of wet hair! The mountains are all snow-capped.

Adrift...

... in poetry

A left hook!

Love at first sight or territorial rivalry?!

Here today

Chinese mists

Pastel blues on our way to Kleivvatnet for an afternoon of berry-picking, lounging and - yes, of course - swimming!