The internet is a bit faster this morning so I was able to get some of the pictures that I mentioned yesterday into the blog. Here is my Dad in 1971 and me yesterday, pointing at his father’s initials on a small building on the former family farm.
And here is a picture of the geological formation that I mentioned in yesterday’s blog. The name of the site is Kvistskriuprestein — prestein is priest in Norwegian, and there is scholarly debate over whether the name means “Priests in white robes” or “Priests rising from an avalanche”. Regardless, there are now only 2 of the tall priests left (versus 10 in 2005). However, you can see some new ones starting to form under some of the other rocks. . They are considered quite a rare phenomena worldwide. It occurs when a stone on top of a very specific type of packed sedimentary rock prevents the material beneath it from entirely eroding away but the surrounding areas that don’t have rocks on them get eroded away.
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