Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on August 27th, 2007. Click picture for larger view.
In this photo you can see ripe cowberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), also known as lingonberries (and foxberry, mountain cranberry, lowbush cranberry, and partridgeberry). I have been collecting several kilograms of these lovely berries the last few days. I use cowberries mainly as […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on August 27th, 2007. Click picture for larger view.
I planted a cherry tree this spring and now my first ever berries are ripe. I’m kind of amazed that they would become edible so far north and let me tell you that they taste great
Not many berries to harvest […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 27th, 2007. Click picture for larger view.
I have taken some pictures of the cloudberry plant in different stages of flowering and the final product as a tasteful berry (as you can see in the photo above).
The cloudberry plant (Rubus chamaemorus), or bakeapple as it is called some […]

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Taken with Olympus E-500 digital camera 26th March, 2007. Click image for larger view.
I really enjoy taking photos of the small wonders in nature. Like these crowberries (Empetrum nigrum) that are remains from last summer.
Crowberries is a small evergreen shrub with edible black fruit. They are not used much here, but are getting more popular […]

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