You won't find frogs here

Morning hikes through wild lands with well-trodden walks, with fresh snow from the last snowfall still caught on the sides of paths, illuminated by golden sunlight. I think you'll be hard pressed to find a more beautiful way to start your day!



I found the name Frognerseteren really amusing, because, come on. FROG-nerseteren? That's one hell of a memorable name.

Frognerseteren really is a place for walking through nature. It's a popular starting point for hikes and trails, so you won't find yourself alone for long even if you get lost - trails are marked out in paint marks by the sides of trees.





Just the thinnest layers of ice were beginning to form on the surface of ponds and lakes; the puddles had already frozen. I found myself wishing everything would freeze up faster so that I would be able to go ice-skating!

I found myself loving the sheer untidiness of it all - the leaves, ferns, roots and branches caught up in each other, the way it was sculpted by everything and yet by nothing. The remains of snowfall still lying there gentle and unshaken, like icing sugar on a cake.





I love this strange twisted gnarled tree root - it looks like a rabbit hole, almost as if I would have fallen into Wonderland if I had climbed through it.

It was then that I knew that truly I must have lost my heart to the Norwegian wood.