welcome to norway! yes, the vikings used to be here![Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
animal head ornaments. they may have been paraded around. or something.[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
the fountain in vigelandsparken (vigelands skulpturpark), definitely lent itself to lots of photos.[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
my favorite sculpture (that i saw, it was huge) in the park.[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
a gargoyle? a finial? a random decoration? i dont know, i liked it.[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
its fall in norway.[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
how long do you have to leave your bike here for it to look like this?[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
panel one (of three) glass panels, depicting the torah, about the first and second commandments (there is but one god, and love thy neighbor as thyself, i think), from the exposition at the nobel peace center (nobels fredssenter) of abbas's "children of abraham (les enfants d'abraham). incredible, inspiring photojournalism. i have the book--ask me to borrow it.[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
the same basic thing from the bible (actually, a passage from the new testament), i'm assuming in ancient greek.[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
the same from the qur'an ((القرأن[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
anette (our gracious host) trying to get out of the kitchen before i took a picture of the impressive table setting.[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
the group (i got the timer working!)--right to left: bennett, eric, annette, ruth and patrick[Oslo, Norway, October 2006]
1 comment:
1) sometimes when i am talking about laszlo and eszter i want to say "hungaria".
2) that fountain and statue are both great and i stole them.
3) i think the second commandment was about venerating idols. the "peace and love" commandment didn't come til the new testament, cause jesus was a big hippie (which is why that's not what people mean when they say 'christian' in politics, either, of course: because righties may love jeezus, but they hate hippies more).
4) oh yeah i keep meaning to write a fuller response to the q you left on my blog. really i do. i'll get to it soon.
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