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“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Well...Dutch wood! :-)
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, in his book "Norwegian Wood" ―
Photo taken in the (Dutch ;-) local woods a year ago.
Today is a very stormy and rainy day though...
Explore #381 - Aug 18th 2009
NOTE: Sold in limited edition of 15 copies. Available at wennag.com (Norwegian only)
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me
She showed me her room, isn't it good, norwegian wood?
She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair
I sat on the rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
We talked until two and then she said, "It's time for bed"
She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown
So I lit a fire, isn't it good, norwegian wood?
[ Norwegian Wood / Paul Mccartney & John Lennon ]
The Heddal stave church (In Norwegian: Heddal stavkirke) is a stave church located at Heddal in Notodden municipality, Norway. Built in the early 13th century, this is Norway's largest stave church, and is a triple-nave design. A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building. The name is derived from the buildings' structure of post and lintel construction which is a type of timber framing, where the load-bearing posts are called stafr in Old Norse and stav in Norwegian. Two related church building types are also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, but are often also called stave churches. Once common all over northwestern Europe, most of the surviving stave churches are in Norway.
There is a legend telling about the erection of the Heddal church and how it was built in three days. Five farmers (Raud Rygi, Stebbe Straand, Kjeik Sem, Grut Grene, and Vrang Stivi) from Heddal had made plans for a church, and they decided to have it built. This is how it happened:
One day, Raud Rygi (one of the five men) met a stranger who was willing to build the church. However, the stranger set three conditions for doing the job, one of which must be fulfilled before the church was finished. Raud had three options: fetch the sun and the moon from the sky, forfeit his life-blood, or guess the name of the stranger. Raud thought the last would not prove too difficult, so he agreed to the terms. But time began to run out. All of the building materials had arrived during the first night, and remarkably, the spire was built during the second. It became clear to Raud that the church would be finished on the third day. Down at heart and fearing for his life, Raud took a walk around in the fields trying to figure out what the stranger's name could be. Still wandering about he had unconsciously arrived at Svintruberget (a rocky hill southeast of the church site) when he suddenly heard a strange but most beautiful and clearly audible female song:
Hush-hush little Child,
Tomorrow Finn will bring you the Moon and the Sky.
He will bring you the Sun and a Christian Heart,
so pretty Toys for my little Child to play a Part.
Or in Norwegian:
I morgen kommer Finn og bringer oss maanen
der han kommer forgaar sol og kristenblod
lokker barna til sang og spel
men nå mine små, sov stille og vel
Now Raud knew what to do, as the stranger was a mountain troll. As expected, the stranger visited Raud the next day, to present the church. Together they walked over to the church, and Raud walked up to one of the pillars, hugged it as if to straighten it, and said, "Hey Finn, this pillar isn't straight!" Finn snapped back, “It could be even more bent!” and then hastily left the church. Raud had solved the riddle after all. The stranger's name was Finn and he lived in the Svintru Mountain. Finn, also known as Finn Fairhair or Finn Fagerlokk, a troll, could not ever after stand the sound of church bells, so he moved along with his family to Himing (Lifjell). The same troll is also responsible for Nidarosdomen, Church of Avaldsnes and Lund Cathedral. (Wikipedia)
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I once had a girl, or should I say
She once had me
She showed me her room
Isn't it good Norwegian wood
She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around and I noticed
There wasn't a chair
I seat on her rug, biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two, and then she said
Its time for bed
She told me she worked in the morning
And started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I woke, I was alone
This bird had flown
So, I lit a fire
Isn't it good Norwegian wood
An old barn in the Morkrid valley near Skjolden, Sognefjord, Norway.
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“…she told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn’t and crawled off to sleep in the bath…
and when I awoke, I was alone…this bird had flown…”
I have decided to create a series. I have seen a lot of other photographers do this on flickr (rosie hardy being one of them) and I thought it would be a good way to stir up my creativity. I have chosen to interpret some of my favorite Beatles songs.
I wanted to show it bigger on black to show the detail of the bird claw pulling the shirt but would have had to enable the all sizes option.
MM theme: songs of the Beatles
song: "Norwegian Wood"
squirrel's view of one of our older Christmas trees in the yard