Silent Sunday
Tankar
ClimateStrike – A Rainy Malmoe Today
Pick a Word in September – Y4
For Paula, Lost in Translation, this week, some new words to illustrate!
In the header
– combusting
hot dog
fluttering
scrumptious
avian
Thursday Thoughts – Centre of the Earth
In Jules Verne’s A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Stapi is the last stop on the route the protagonists take before they climb Snæfellsjökull and enter the interior of the planet through a tunnel in the crater.
We didn’t intend to try any of these possibilities, but to hike along the coast line of the peninsula from Arnarstapi to Hellnar.
We encountered (I think you could say that…) spectacular landscapes this morning – the likes of nothing I had seen before.
Steep cliffs and birds, birds, birds…on this ca 4 km hike.
Amazing colours everywhere, almost no fellow hikers, sun, blue skies and no wind. Who could ask for more?
The further we went, the more the landscape opened up and the magnificent coastline became visible – with all its small rocks and islets –
– a spectacular archipelago.
Struggling through some rugged lava formations, I suddenly spotted three killer whales, orcas, in the blue waters ahead of us. I only got one shot working…then they were gone. But wow, how happy I was! I had never seen them live, in their natural habitat.
Gatklettur Arch
Gatklettur Arch – after some searching, we finally found it on our way back to Arnarstapi.
And the soft evening light kissed the earth. I sat down among the flowers, and listened to the strong feeling of Love for this Country, the stillness in the air, the beauty of this place. I watched the young girl, lying there, contemplating – and wondered if she too had seen the orcas…. To me, they were the icing on the cake this Icelandic summer’s day.
We returned to the two villages, Arnarstapi and Hellnar, the next day – just to savour their beauty once more before heading north… There just might be another post.
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Fuzzy
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Fuzzy
Frank asks us to go fuzzy this week – don’t know if this is fuzzy enough…but I hope so!
Wordless Wednesday
Macro Monday – Sweet Blackberries
Silent Sunday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #63 – Magical – My Magical Garden
Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden – in all the places.
― The Secret Garden
I read The Secret Garden as a young woman, and over the years it has occupied an enchanted and magical place in my heart. Now Autumn has arrived here, where I live in Sweden, and that means There’s a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam. – Eliza Cook.
But Magical can mean so many different things to everyone of us – At Lens-Artists, we have already had Magical Light as a theme, (last year) but this time it is all up to you! What is Magical to you? People, places, things, nature, adventures, moments… – this week we are looking forward to having some of Your magic!
As usual – click on the images to enlarge.
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing. – Anthony Hopkins
Picking plums today – waiting for the lovely Comma to finish basking on my ladder…
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
An oil painting can, maybe, make the magic last forever…
Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it – Rumi
Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. – Carl Sandburg
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
― The Secret Garden
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams
– But there are, Fairies dancing in my garden. Contemplate the lovely writer Roald Dahl’s words: Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
Thank you for all the wonderful silhouettes for Patti last week! If you haven’t seen her beautiful post yet – please pay her a visit!
Have you seen these:
A lovely first time, Welcome Carolyn – of Carollynnlife.wordpress.com – by the waterside
Smruti gives us a true silhouetted philosopher
Oneletterup is ever so mysterious this week…
And a first time Welcome, for Pam of i choose this, with beautiful beach shots
As always, Amy, Tina, Patti and I hope you will join us.
Leya 
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