Saturday 22 December 2007

Tromsø in the winter (Tromsø i vinteren)

This photo was taken Saturday, December 22, 2007 at about 3:10 p.m. We are on Storgate, the main road in Tromsø. This section is closed to auto traffic, so pedestrians walk along the street. We are looking south from the torv area (an open space, which is the central part of town. In the summer, during the day, there are many booths in the torv selling all kinds of vegetables, flowers, and whatever else you might think of. But this is to show you how dark it is at 3pm. The only period of light we see is between 11am and 1pm. We do not see the sun until around the 21st of January. Otherwise it is this dark.
We don't know what to call this because the sun doesn't come up, so it isn't sunrise or sunset, but the sky is so beautiful that we can't help taking pictures of it. This was taken Dec. 12, 2007 at 11:07 a.m. facing south just ouside of our apartment building.
Downtown Tromsø Dec. 13, 2007 at 12:22 p.m.
Lill Kristoffersen, a member who lives in one of the apartments on the floor above us in the same building as us, and Sister Humphrey during a game of Phase 10 held after a home evening lesson in our apartment.
This is a picture taken from just outside a members apartment in Tromsø, looking across the fjord towards the mainland, taken on Dec. 20, 2007 at 11:54 a.m.
T. Erlend Lunde and the newest member of the Tromsø Branch, his daughter Emmi Linnea, born December 1, 2007. Erlend isn't a proud father, is he?

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