Puffins of the land.
Sheep of the sea.
The Icelandic Circle of Life
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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Sushi, the Old Icelandic Way
The West Fjords Separate
Welcome to Iceland. That’s the West Fjords on the upper left. There’s more blue there than in most of the rest of the world put together.
See? Very blue indeed.
Well, blue or not, it’s separating, due by the looks of it to forces that are stretching the country out of shape. Here’s an aerial map I found in Skutustaðir.
Must have fallen out of the door of þor’s 4×4.
Sheep Don’t Forget
The farm is gone …
…but the sheep still come, hefted to the mountain …
… and to the sea. (To them, the road is nothing.)
The sheep of the sea? Ah yes, these are stone farms.
Very tasty.
Winter barely has a grip on the Reydarfjörður shore.
But… sheep of the sea? Is that correct?
No, they are oyster catchers of the land!
If we moved back, they’d still be there to receive us.
Getting Off the Ring Road in Iceland
Before the Ring Road, this was the highway to the East.
It is now easy to forget that Iceland is many different countries united by isolation. Sometimes the way forward is the way back.
And this is the high-tech version.
Road crew.
Watch your step.
If isolation can be connection, can connection be isolation?
Roadside Inn.
When a country becomes a road…
… what then?
Colourful Iceland
This is not a B&W image. This is the sun pooling on the earth. That’s liquid sun there.
It’s black pupil is Iceland. It is watching the night sky. People walk across the eye, this way and that. Some take boats across the sun. They drop lines and nets and pull up the fish of the moon. In Vík, on the South Coast, eternity is never far.
Spring Lovers in Iceland
With flowers, grass, wind and rock. That’s the way.
Þingveillir.
The Sun’s House
Always with a porch light burning.
Hveragerði
The Most Beautiful Stone
The instant I saw this stone, I was able to read it…but I will never be able to translate what it says into words or language. It is not diminished for it, nor am I.
At the Side of the Old Trail to the South, Sóleyjarbotnar
A Farm in Iceland 
