Monthly Archives: July 2011

Its easy to get lost in the hugeness of life.  So many choices and adventures; so much beauty to choose from and experience.  Look closer and you’ll see the many different parts that make up the whole, each one so … Continue reading →

The River Hvítá falls 105 feet into a 1 1/2 mile ravine of the waterfall Gullfoss. In the 1920s, there were plans to dam Hvítá river at Gullfoss, but Sigríður Tómasdóttir put a stop to them.  Living on a farm near … Continue reading →

Where would we be without communication?  It was lovely to walk up from a long flight of stairs to this sign, after shooting in the cold, wind and snow.

Faxaflói Bay is between Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik and the Snæfellsnes peninsula.  It has always supplied food for people living on its shores and is a popular place to watch whales and dolphins.

I’d never seen a grave-site quite like this, with electric bulbs.  It faces the Faxaflói bay and behind it to the right, I believe, is the Snæfellsjökull glacier.  Following right to left, the sun setting and a sign post with … Continue reading →

This is the cemetery gate beside the Budir Church.  Maybe someone can tell me what the Icelandic sign is saying.  I can only imagine it asking the person leaving to shut the gate behind them. Looking at death, we humans … Continue reading →

The forms of light are innumerable, as are the ways in which it touches us.