Le Shopping.
And home.
More shopping.
More home in the dark.
Yet more shopping (there’s lots of shopping.)
And more home in the dark (there’s lots of dark.)
Tourist Reykjavik is only one half a block deep.
When the winds blow in the winter gales, even statues get strapped in for the ride!
Hellissandur
That’s the way it is in Hellissandur! But when the storm lifts, ah, then the whole world dances.
Above Hellissandur
Every day, the world shifts between gold and blue.
Looking East from Buðir in a Strong Gale
This is it’s great message in the wind.
Siglufjörður
Akureyri
Blessed Be!
Remember that summer light?
I think she misses the Akureyri Viking Store trolls, don’t you?
As this rowan in the birch forest at Ásbyrgi shows, it’s about the darkness, and how that is woven with light.
See?
Ewe With Her Lambs, Buðir, Midsummer’s Night 2019
At that time of nightfall, when the icebergs look like this as they wash up on the sand …
…the Atlantic looks like this.
Your mind works like this, too.
Old Iceland: Volcano, Glacier, Darkness, and Dawn and Thou.
New Iceland: Volcano, Glacier, Darkness of the Outhouse, Dawn, and Rental Cars.
Without zoom lenses, Icelandic tourism would be a post-modern art form.
Sometimes in Iceland the whole sky is a sun: a blue one.
Hafnarfjell
It’s pretty fun to boot around in it! And it’s free!
When you turn off onto Road 5001 at the head of the Havalfjörður to visit the high waterfall Glymur, make note of the gravel parking area to your left. When you come back soggy and disappointed that Glymur is unattainable because of bad weather and high water and muck, why not stop and hike a hundred metres up the stream to Paradisarfoss? She’s a pretty little one, with a fine little forest of wild birches. You need never be disappointed in Iceland.
By Icelandic standards, that’s a very good trail there.
Well worth the trip! And no, this was not sunset. And, yes, the sky was that pink. It was just November 5, that’s all, when a stroll through the rain is like a walk through laughter.
A Farm in Iceland 