From a strange planet - 31

Fv. 289 Hurum

A pleasant sunny, snowy road.

But what is that square, dark shape in the background?

What are those rectangular boxes?

Spooky geometries, both by night and by day.

Fv. 281 Storsand Hurum

Menacing cars parked in the wood.

A secret transaction?

Did someone walk into these woods? Did they come back?

A lake is watching through the trees. Who drowned there?

Will this place be pleasant when spring comes?

E6 Nøstvett

A small hill.

Probably it's very old. Older than the road.

It might hide a buried treasure.

Or it could be solid granite.

That's for you to decide.

Why dig here, if you can dig everywhere?

E6 Støkken

The horizon calls. Very horizontal.

The house shines.

Rows of trees. Very vertical.

Rotation preserves angles and lengths.

E6 Vestby

Fields wait for spring in the background.

Looking at fields is a blessing.

Time slows down. Calm descends.

Thank the creator for fields. They save us daily.

E6 Ingedal

The obvious road.

And the less obvious road.

Going there, and there.

None go to the dark mountain.

The radio tower transmits, but not for us.

Someone owns it, but not for us.

We drive by, obedient.

Fv. 118 Svinesund

Nothing happens, nothing changes.

A parallel road no one ever takes.

A fence separates two boring spaces.

Black mothers with black strollers.

Roll new life across danger.

Fv. 101 Prestebakke

I have a whole blog post on this place.

It is not how it looks.

Thomas Ligotti is here.

Fv. 124 Strømsfoss

Far away is beautiful. Very far.

The woods are complicated. Light scatters.

Who or what lives there? A statue?

E18 Ørje grense

Borderlands.

Trees like flags. Clouds like flares.

Shining roads.

Conveyor belts to home.

E18 Holstad

Hills.

The horizon of longing.

Thirty years war.

Fv. 289 Hurum

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=1330136

Fv. 281 Storsand Hurum

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=2046858

E6 Nøstvett

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=2580261

E6 Støkken

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=2037119

E6 Vestby

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=278609

E6 Ingedal

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=109904

Fv. 118 Svinesund

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=457918

Fv. 101 Prestebakke

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=110917

Fv. 124 Strømsfoss

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=109117

E18 Ørje grense

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=722047

E18 Holstad

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=627532

From a strange planet - 30

 We make a connection to our previous travels at Vinje, on E134 after its crossing with the Rv.9. From there we travel East. We take a few side roads through the countryside and admire the snowy landscape. We see things that are not there at all. We are melodramatic about them. We don't care. Landscape does that to us. We connect to our previous travels at Fv. 313 Bogen. And Thomas Ligotti, everywhere Ligotti. And Franz Kafka, everywhere Kafka. 

E134 Vinje

Houses in the background, hidden behind bare trees.

By full moon you see tree shadows, and porch lights.

A sign speaks its short message.

The rocks invite you to see the distance.

A portal is there, waiting.

Fv. 37 Raulandsfjellet

Flat snow with electricity pole.

Not here, there is calling.

Into the hills.

Dark closed houses, lit by the light of the radio mast.

To sit there, and freeze alone in silence.

Fv. 37 Jønjiljo

Even on sunny days the light does not reach here.

Entrance to somewhere.

Darker by day than by night.

Fv. 40 Veggli

By day light before dark.

By night dark before light.

Sign says 40 + 60 = 100. A square.

Rv. 7 Østre Krødsherad

A wall of trees.

Snowy rocks like waiting people.

Rv. 7 Nordtjernlia

Sparks descending from the faraway hills.

Trees dancing in the night light.

Rv. 7 Rallerud

Toll house for the mountain entrance.

Signs shining.

Rv. 7 Sokna

A faraway detail contains romantic light.

From here it's a fairytale.

How does here look from there?

Two cat eyes are watching us.

Rv. 35 Nakkerud

Here you can sit in the shining glass house.

Here you can shit in the sinning glass house.

Light penetrates everything.

Fv. 319 Sagbukta

Early one winter morning during my childhood, while I was still lying in bed upstairs, watching a few snowflakes floating outside my bedroom window, I heard a voice from downstairs say these words: ‘The ice is breaking up on the river.’ This voice was like no other that was familiar to me. It was very harsh and yet very quiet at the same time, as though a heap of rusted machinery had whispered something from the shadows of an old factory. - Thomas Ligotti, Sideshow, and other stories, II. Premature communication.

Fv. 313 Bogen

You park your car here and you look through the scrawny trees down at the water.

No one pushes his way through here, certainly not someone with a message from a dead man. But you sit at your window and dream of that message when evening comes. - An Imperial Message by Franz Kafka, Translation by Ian Johnston

E134 Vinje

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=757803

Fv. 37 Raulandsfjellet

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=774337

Fv. 37 Jønjiljo

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=308574

Fv. 40 Veggli

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=1227446

Rv. 7 Østre Krødsherad

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=281232

Rv. 7 Nordtjernlia

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=1813708

Rv. 7 Rallerud

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=774316

Rv. 7 Sokna

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=281064

Rv. 35 Nakkerud

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=457921

Fv. 319 Sagbukta

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=271886

Fv. 313 Bogen

https://www.vegvesen.no/public/webkamera/kamera?id=576514