Wednesday, July 27, 2005

just happy now

my first winning entry on DPC

My picture won!!!



....

yes ... just lazy

the raven again
This is a raven flying down. Not to my head but he was flying down. That crazy bird saying krúnk krúnk.

Last couple of weeks I was on summer holyday. It was great. The first week I was walking in the Hornstrandir area in the north west part (Westfjord) of Iceland. Beautiful place as you can see.
Sunset in Hornvik - Hornstrandir
This picture is from the first evening there and the only evening we had some raining! As you can guess it was not raining very heavily.

The second day we had very heavy storm but the rest of the time we had just great weather. As you can see:
my current desktop background

And, yes, I went with my sister and her boyfriend
Not so very much lost.


In the end of the tour we stayed for couple of days in Reykjafjordur but Kristján (Ragnhildur’s boyfriend and Ragnhildur is the sister) is from that place. Well his grandparents lived there.

In an old house
This picture is taken inside a house close to the beach there and some fishing stuff inside.


But anyway… I have been busy enjoying the fine weather here in Iceland the last couple of weeks and not so much time for my blog. I have also been on a photography journey and have some not so bad photos I think. On that DPC thing I think I will have some congress now and even a ribbon in the texture challenge. Not so bad.



But since I don't have all the time for my blog you can see something happening on my fotopages:

Fotolog
Flickr


Thursday, July 21, 2005

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Sunday, July 03, 2005

Me and my folk in my country

The weekend was in the country. In the south part of Iceland I and my family have a land to raise a forest and there we have a little cabin. Well it is very little and you could perhaps use the word tiny for it. Last autumn we decided to make a new window for the hut and last weekend was the time to put it in place. My brother did most of the window, designing it and everything.
Gunni - my brother
The designer, carpender and engineer: My brother Gunni
My mother
My mother taking care of everything!

My father
My father had some things to do as usual.

In the evening we had a kind of a birthday party since my father's birthday was last Friday. All of a sudden we had some rain and soon after that there came the most marvellous rainbow I have seen for years!

The double rainbow above my head
The great rainbow over the mountain Búrfell

In the old sagas the rainbow was the bridge to the land of gods where Walhalla was supposed to be. As you can see in my face I’m very much afraid there will come some trolls and take us and eat… or even worse, change us to snakes or anything terrible.

Me and the rainbow
The coward in the country!

Since it was getting cold we led the stove outside. Well we didn’t have much heat from it but it looked nice to have it and we felt a little bit warmer. I wrote in my diary:

"It is rather chilly and I’m more or less freezing and you can tell from my handwriting. We had that very bad weather forecast for tomorrow and it is now almost two o’clock after midnight. Gúnni [my rother] is brushing his tooth. My hands are cold and U2 is playing in the radio. Then I will go to sleep… I will blog this!"


Stove
There was a fire in the stove

The weather didn’t turn as badly as the weather forecast had predicted. There was some heavy wind around 8 o’clock in the morning but just for half an hour or so. I and my brother went home before noon but our parents stayed a little bit longer. Around noon the rain started and they went also back home.

When I came home I became extremely tired and went to bed in all my clothes. Not as I’m used to sleep! ;-)…. I woke up about 9 o’clock in the evening and stayed awake until 3 o’clock in the night when I finally went to sleep. Not in any clothes this time. Slept until next day and was too late to work. It was a good weekend.