Through my lens on the first day of January

Not quite finished with the kissing under the misteltoe?

Here's a tree full for you

Our little town's speciality: wild growing misteltoe

You won't find that many other places in the world!

The first of January is one of the official flagging days in Norway.

If you have a tall flag pole in your garden, you should put the flag up on certain days.

The flag has to be put up and taken down at certain times of the day.

These things are serious matters you know!

If you can't be bothered

then you must have a pennant instead and just leave it up all the time.

Most inhabitants of this building is elderly people

As you can see they look upon flagging seriously

even though they don't have a pole or a garden.

If it's cold enough

even salt water will freeze

But it'll take much colder weather for the fjord to freeze over.

It's not "GOD JUL" anymore

but it's time for a fresh start

and a lovely warm "smiling egg"

thats what we call it when the white is firm

and the yolk is runny