Hello and Happy Monday!
My recent blog break was due to our Sept 2-7 Iceland trip. We flew from Dulles Airport near Washington DC to the capital city Reykjavik, Iceland. Our first full day, we walked around the harbor and marina. I really liked the design of the Harpa Concert Hall building. The Harpa Concert Hall looked beautiful lit up at night. This building was designed with the help of Danish-Islandic artist Olafur Eliasson. BTW, I am guessing the bird seen in the harbor is a Black Guillemot?
The statue walk, various sculptures were found around the city and the Tjornin Pond. Some of my favorites were the first statue is a bureaucrat taken off it's pedestal, Boy and Girl against the lamppost, The Settler, The Mermaid and the next to last is called the Spell Broken by Einar Jonsson.
Below, the monument to the Bureaucrat.
We walked the loop around the Tjornin Pond, seeing lots of Whooper Swans, ducks, Greylag Geese and Black-headed Gulls. I still have to figure out my new birds or lifers seen on this trip. This was not a birding trip, a trip to see the scenery, waterfalls, glaciers and we saw the Northern Lights. The birds are a bonus and always a distraction for me.
I noticed the coral bill and legs, I think this is the Black-headed Gull.
I am pretty sure these are the Greylag Geese, a lifer.
A lifer for me, the Whooper Swan.
I could be wrong, gulls are confusing for me. Is this the Lesser Black-backed Gull?
In the middle of the pond, I nicknamed this little island Gull Island.
My and my shadow saw lots of pretty flowers around the pond and city.
Iceland is the greenest country in the world. With geothermal heating, hydro-electricity from the waterfalls. It is a very green-living place, I wish our country would do the same. The USA came in a dismal 61st, Iceland is first and Switzerland is number 2.
Please check out and visit the following memes and links. I hope to see you there.
Thanks to Cath the host of Country Scapes
Thanks to Angie the host of Mosaic Monday
Thanks for visiting and commenting, have a happy day and a great new week!
My recent blog break was due to our Sept 2-7 Iceland trip. We flew from Dulles Airport near Washington DC to the capital city Reykjavik, Iceland. Our first full day, we walked around the harbor and marina. I really liked the design of the Harpa Concert Hall building. The Harpa Concert Hall looked beautiful lit up at night. This building was designed with the help of Danish-Islandic artist Olafur Eliasson. BTW, I am guessing the bird seen in the harbor is a Black Guillemot?
The statue walk, various sculptures were found around the city and the Tjornin Pond. Some of my favorites were the first statue is a bureaucrat taken off it's pedestal, Boy and Girl against the lamppost, The Settler, The Mermaid and the next to last is called the Spell Broken by Einar Jonsson.
Below, the monument to the Bureaucrat.
We walked the loop around the Tjornin Pond, seeing lots of Whooper Swans, ducks, Greylag Geese and Black-headed Gulls. I still have to figure out my new birds or lifers seen on this trip. This was not a birding trip, a trip to see the scenery, waterfalls, glaciers and we saw the Northern Lights. The birds are a bonus and always a distraction for me.
I noticed the coral bill and legs, I think this is the Black-headed Gull.
I am pretty sure these are the Greylag Geese, a lifer.
A lifer for me, the Whooper Swan.
I could be wrong, gulls are confusing for me. Is this the Lesser Black-backed Gull?
In the middle of the pond, I nicknamed this little island Gull Island.
My and my shadow saw lots of pretty flowers around the pond and city.
Iceland is the greenest country in the world. With geothermal heating, hydro-electricity from the waterfalls. It is a very green-living place, I wish our country would do the same. The USA came in a dismal 61st, Iceland is first and Switzerland is number 2.
Please check out and visit the following memes and links. I hope to see you there.
Thanks to Cath the host of Country Scapes
Thanks to Angie the host of Mosaic Monday
Thanks to LadyFi the host of Our World Tuesday!
Thanks for visiting and commenting, have a happy day and a great new week!
