Ramily picture pages > It's the end of the world (well, a least the end of Denmark)
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Skagen Yellow
Here is a view of "Skagen Yellow" houses. 95% of the buildings in Skagen are this color, and when the southern sun hits the yellow walls, terra cotta roofs and blue skies just right...it is just brilliant.
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Skagen maple
Just a very pretty picture, almost a color study - white, orange, yellow. Simple, beautiful...that's Skagen.
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Skagen skies
Clouds and sky
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Grenen
Here is a view from the dunes towards the point. If you look at your atlas, you'll see that Denmark comes to a point where the Atlantic Ocean North Sea and Baltic Sea meet at a point. Rarely does geology at a microscale actually do something like come to an exact point, but in this place it is the truth. The continent literally goes out between the seas to an exact point, just wide enough to put your two feet between two oceans.
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at the light house
At a place where the European continent juts out into the ocean, the light house serves a great purpose. And for the boys, it serves as a great backdrop!
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a sanctuary...
Here are some sea going birds finding some rest in the cove.
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at the beach...
Here is Natalie and the boys on the shore with the point in the background.
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rocks and water...
pebbles on the Baltic Sea side.
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shadow
Here is Paul looking out at the Baltic Sea. This picture is taken right at noon, and notice how long his shadow is. That's how far north we are, and how low the sun is in the sky, and that is what causes such brilliant colors in Skagen.
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sillhouette...
The light in Skagen makes so many great shots
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the end of the world...
Here we are standing at the point. About fifteen feet behind us is the place where the two seas converge at the point. Notice there are waves breaking on both sides of us. It really is amazing.
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Seal tourism.
The seals come to Skagen to look at the humans.
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waves at Grenen
Here is the place where the Atlantic Ocean North Sea and the Baltic Sea meet. The waves from the two oceans are breaking into one another, and it creates some big splashes!
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water gazing...
Even though it's cold, a boy can't help but get wet at the beach.
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Mommy at Skagen...
Luke thinks Skagen is great, too, but really, all he needs is his mommy and he's happy.
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Skagen sky
This is a good shot of the deep blue sky at Skagen.
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Luke strolling the dunes.
Brilliant light all around, and Luke spent most of his time staring at the ground looking for rocks to pick up.
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Two of a kind...
The boys matching.
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Swinging on the farm!
South of Skagen is a great place called Farm Fun. Animals, fields, play grounds, ropes coures for kids...a day of nothing but fun! Here is Paul Michael swinging on a swing made from a bouy.
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Luke and the chickens...
Luke came to see the chickens at the farm...the chickens came to see Luke.
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Flippin' at the Farm
Bounce mats create some serious bouning for Paul Michael.
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Baby Goat
This little goat nuzzled up with Paul Michael until he got a hug from Paul.
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Two babies...
...and then one from Luke, too.
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the Duke and the Donkey...
Luke is trying to pet that big doggy...he kept barking at the donkey!
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Wagons ho!
Even getting around the farm was fun!
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Swinging in the barn...
In the hay barn, with the pigs and sheep, there are great ropes to swing between the bales.
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boys in the hay
The boys in the hay barn.
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Jelling
On the way home, we stopped in Jelling. Jelling is the place where Gorm, and Harold Bluetooth (Viking kings from ca. 800-900) buried their families, built a church, and declared Denmark a Christian Nation. Here is the Church next to the burial mounds.
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Viking Rune Stone
This is the Viking Rune Stone, created by Viking King Harold Bluetooth around the year 900, bearing the image of Christ, and the words carved on the back that declare the Kingdom of Denmark as united, and Christian. This image is now the symbol of the Danish folk church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark.
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Rune Stone
Here is Paul Michael deciphering the oldest of the two Rune Stones. It was written in archaic Danish, by the Viking King Gorm in the 800s, declaring the Kingdom of Denmark as united.