Artists. And more.

We woke up to a beautiful day here. Decided to go to Helgafell, which was a sacred mount in the pagan days, and now they say if you walk up it without saying word you can get 3 wishes…you also get a ton of great photos.

We are both amazed at the hardy flowers that grow here all by themselves. Here is some grass/path with a close up of the flower right after.

And of course, a place to pee and a place to pray–there is really nothing here except that one farm, and the mountain.

We drove to Grundarfjodur to see this museum…sometimes guidebooks are a little hard to decipher.

On the drive back it felt a little like the last day of Survivor. We drove past almost everything that we have seen in the last 2 weeks…fjords, lava fields, geothermal hot spots, cute little fishing villages

And then the sign telling us they make fermented shark down this road–we didn’t go

Back here to a museum showing us how they make Eiderdown—from the little duck nests

Then up to “The Library of Water”. This town out-grew their library, and Roni Horn a NY artist who loves Iceland got the funding for this permanent exhibition. She traveled to every glacier and got some ice r

melted it and but it in these floor-to-ceiling glass tubes

This one is from a glacier that no longer exists

Then walked over to this amazing church.

those are lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling–maybe 200 in all.

And talked to this artist who moved her studio here so she could be close to the clay. She found an area near here where she can dig up clay and use it for glaze or for pieces.

ALL this in a town of 1100 people!!!

Oh. This was our tour guide for the Eiderdown exhibit. He also plays for the local pro-basketball team, which is evidently a big deal (according to our waitress last night whose boyfriend also plays..). I asked him if his tee shirt was meant Ironically. He said “No. This is a very old pattern.”