The expression “if you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes” was made for Iceland. Wind, rain, sleet, snow and sun; the weather teaching us to hang on and keep pushing through the storms, stop and enjoy the moment the sun emerges, have a Plan A but also have a Plan B,C,D and E and, most important, just relax cause it’ll all work out.

Hallgrimskirkja Lutheran Church

Lava field in the mid-Atlantic rift, where the Eurasian and Atlantic plates are pulling apart

Crater Lake

Mid-Atlantic Rift, site of Þingvellir, the first and oldest parliament

Gullfoss Waterfall

Gullfoss Waterfall

Hallgrimskirkja Lutheran Church

Geysir

Trying to accept the rain …

Fire and ice; cold rain and hot steam; flowing lava and frozen ice; uplifting earth and eroding water and wind and wave; beauty and terror – you are right smack in the midst of the forces of creation and destruction which are intertwined in Iceland everywhere you look.

Waves! No land between here and Antarctica

Vik, Iceland

Black Sand Beach, near Vik

Black Sand Beach, near Vik

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall (from behind)

Three trolls caught in the sun and turned to stone at Vik on the South Coast

Skógafoss Waterfall

Sólheimajökull glacial tongue, coming off the Mýrdalshreppur ice cap

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall

Basalt columns, black sand beach, near Vik

Sólheimajökull glacial tongue, coming off the Mýrdalshreppur ice cap

Iceland was amazing and reminded me to be adventurous and to connect to nature in all her wild beauty.  May I carry a small piece of that creative/destructive power in my heart and be reminded of what it is be fully alive always …