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Category Archives: Land
A Walk Through the Great Central Icelandic Forest
Sheep are foresters here.
The Sneaky Spirit of Skaftafell
Svartifoss, the Black Falls of Skaftafell National Park. Such a lovely rhyme scheme of basalt crystals.
Even sneakier when the water first shows itself, the tease.
One of the sacred spaces of the world, for sure. It doesn’t reveal itself all at once.
Icelandic Football Rules
What do volcanoes dream of? (Let’s face it, they sure do dream.)
Snæfell
Why, heading a football for the national team, of course.
Þingvellir
Sometimes you have to wait for the team to come, though. Sidelined on a bench. That’s the danger of being an ogre. Well, you take it in stride, right?
Dyrhólaey
It’s hard for a land to evolve into human society, but it’s inspiring that it’s giving it a good Icelandic try!
At Dawn, Iceland is Four Worlds at Once
At first, dawn is pure light.
þingvellavatn
Then it reveals another world.
Then it turns blue. The other world is still there, but white now.
Then there are colours, and mountains, as the two worlds join.
When you count the houses built at þingvellir each time Iceland enacts a new constitution, that’s three worlds. Well, four if you count the ice.
Reykjavik Has Gone to the Birds
But they’re sweet.
And pretty.
Who needs trees?
Glaciers are Tricksters
Anyone can see that.
Jokulsarlón
Sólheimajökull
But they’re also very friendly beasts. You just have to wait for them to come to you.
A kind of troll, really. Or, a whole family of them.
Snæfell
Big and sneaky.
Langjökull
Three Species of Icelandic Camouflage
Like the troll’s hair it nests upon, the white fleck of the gull hides in plain sight.
Islands, like Iceland, do the same in the middle of the sea.
Dyrhólaey
Out of Bounds
This photographer on Dyrhólaey is out of bounds. She crossed a barrier to get here. Thousands do.
Some die. Is this view not good enough?
Is this one not good enough?
What about this? So bad you need to die to get a different one?
We’d rather you were alive, really. Really. Besides, if you just turn around, you can see almost forever.
Then we could all go back and grill a lamb or something, drink some lava beer and have a great good time.
Well, ok, maybe not that.
Waterfall as Spaces of Unity
Words teach us to see waterfall, cliff and light.
Alarlhryna
And shadow.
Alarlhryna
But they are one thing, together.
Gulfoss
Sjaelandafoss
Fossá
Even when they have no name!
Even with ice. Even in winter rain.
Svartifoss
Even with blood-red birches. Everything you add becomes the fall. It ceases to be separate.
Svartifoss
Even a river can become sky.
Bessastaðaá
Even sky can become a river.
Stekkalækur
Even underground rivers entering the sky from the mouth of the earth.
Hraunfossar
Even falls held within the Earth!
Dettifoss
They are all falls, not water, light, stone, air, water, grass or trees. They are always once thing together, all at once.
Systrafoss
This is a great mystery, not because it is unknown, but because it is vital.
Hengifoss
This teaching, and this view deep into human-earth relationships in Iceland, continually inspires me. The land is alive, as is the water, and any words that are hanging around start there first.
A Farm in Iceland 
