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mostly places. occasional objects, sparse thoughts.

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It was a mighty fine day to walk through Mordor.

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Taupo. 

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Geysers.

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Above and below. 

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Iceland - Selfoss & Vík í Mýrdal 

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Iceland - Landmannalaugar

Cotton Grass

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Iceland - Landmannalaugar

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Iceland - Svartifoss

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Iceland - Jökulsárlón

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Iceland - Hoffelsjökull

So we who have come As trippers North Have minds no match For this Land's girth; The glacier's licking Tongues deride Our pride of life, Our flashy songs. Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland.

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Iceland - Hvalnes and Höfn

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Iceland - Kverkfjall

Ice, ice, baby. 

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Iceland - mt. Askja, Viti and Öskjuvatn

Peering into the mouth of hell, finding a rainbow. 

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Iceland - Vesturdalur & Dettifoss

The Beast, Karl og Kerling

“I like Iceland. Iceland is one of the few places where you don’t feel it in the air when it’s Sunday” - Hetty to Nancy, in W.H. Auden, Letters from Iceland. 

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Iceland - Day 5 

Lavaland

Myvatn - Namafjall - Leirhnjùkur - Krafla 

“I wish it were in my power, Sir, to give you such a description of this place as it deserves, but I fear mine will always remain inferior in point of expression” Van Troil, Letters from Iceland, 1772

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Iceland - day 4 Goðafoss waterfall

Everywhere you look, water is coming.  It’s flowing, raining, trickling, pooling or swarming in the form of minuscule droplets, dancing in the air.  

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Iceland - day 4

Hauganes - It is not down on any map; true places never are.

“I wish I could describe things well, for a whale is the most beautiful animal I have ever seen. It combines the fascination of something alive, enormous, and gentle, with the functional beauties of modern machinery” - W.H. Auden; Letters from Iceland