Iceland Advent - Day 4 Handmade ornaments from a crafting workshop during Christmas celebrations at Árbær Open Air Museum (borgarsogusafn.is/en/arbaer-op...). Made in our first year in Iceland.

Iceland Advent - Day 3 It's time for yummy Jólaköttur, a crispy, caramel-y chocolate candy bar only available now. Jólakötturinn (the Christmas Cat) is a giant creature said to eat those who don't get new clothes for Christmas. Minion made his own cat from pipe cleaners a couple of years ago.

Iceland Advent - Day 2 Companies jazz up their product packaging with holiday fun

Me, I'm a loather. HAAAATE it.

Iceland Advent - Day 1 Each year I draw a Christmas wreath on our door since it's too windy here to hang anything outside. I think this counts for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows. While technically it's a door, it's in a wall of floor to ceiling windows. :)

@onefootiniceland.bsky.social You missed this by one day (and it will probably be gone tomorrow).

Today's walk in Iceland

Good morning from Iceland

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

Today's walk in Iceland It's time for another pic of the neighborhood waterfall, I think.

Today's walk in Iceland Rauðhólar (red hills) Such a cool, weird little area just off the Ring Road.

I know it's not exactly news, but man, people on the internet can be so weird about the most innocuous stuff. I had to do my first "detach quoted post" because people were making it strange.

Today's walk in Iceland The record October snowfall has almost completely disappeared.

The sun is out in full force after yesterday's storm.

Aurora tonight, after all the snow today. #Iceland

Our yellow storm warning (snow) has been upgraded to orange now (more snow). And yet, all the kids still walked to school today. I'm remembering that when Minion was in 1st grade and we lived in Pennsylvania, the kids had to have indoor recess if it was colder than 40F.

It's an unusually snowy day for October here in southwest Iceland. And the brunt of the storm isn't even projected until this afternoon!

I've put up the winter lights. They usually stay on from October until March, to help us get through the dark Icelandic days and nights.

We've got our first snow. It's currently falling both up and down and also sideways.

Today's walk in Iceland Quite cold, brisk wind made my cheeks red and fingers (in gloves) icy. Snæfellsjökull looking like a mini Fuji in the distance.

Áfram stelpur!

I was complaining about all the gloomy weather the last few weeks, but today is gloriously sunny and now I can't unsee how dirty all my windows are.

Driving past Esjan this morning. Snow up top! #Iceland

Today's walk in Iceland Moody, chilly. My heart swells and I still almost cry when I look around at all this country offers me.

Today's walk in Iceland I miss blue skies.

Today's walk in Iceland It's been a warm, wet October.

Hella In Iceland. Pronounced HEHT-lah.

Today's walk in Iceland It's a perfect sunny fall day.

Today's walk in Iceland Clear air to clear the head and balm the soul.

Today's walk in Iceland A bright sky, a brisk breeze and a slight chill in the clear air. There are many ways to enjoy the area.

Big drop in temperature and big uptick in static electricity today. I guess the season has officially changed.

Apropos of nothing at all, I will be really glad when this moustache trend goes away. I'm sorry dudes, but it looks good on so very few of you. How can something make a person look both older than their age and also like they're struggling through puberty at the same time?

Today's walk in Iceland The light was so interesting. The mountains looked barren and nearly black, then later like they were covered in deep green velvet.

I'm listening to an audiobook narrated by the author and she's doing the *weirdest* voice for one of the characters. Surely she didn't actually imagine him sounding that way?

Some teens came by yesterday selling homemade kleinur (Icelandic twisted doughnuts) door to door to raise money for the school parent association. They may be the best kleinur I've ever had.

Today's walk in Iceland A nice stroll around one of the many lakes in the Reykjavík area.

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I won't mourn a horrible person who gleefully spewed vile, awful shit for years. But I will be horrified that people in the US are shot every .single. day and nothing ever changes.

Did somebody put me on a list or something? All of a sudden I'm getting bunches of likes from people who don't follow me, within minutes of posting. It's a bit disconcerting, I have to say. I had a locked account on the other place and I genuinely liked it that way. Ah well, glad they like Iceland 🤷‍♀️

Today's walk in Iceland Rain. Autumn.

Today's walk in Iceland The misty rain falling between the mountains almost make it look like a double exposure image. A faint rainbow is trying to work itself up.

Today's walk in Iceland Holy crap, what a gorgeous day we have.

Today's walk in Iceland The sunshine and the clean air and the soft breeze and the chittering of birds and the moss that's starting to fade

It's our town festival weekend! Friday night's celebration is always food, featured music acts, hillside sing-along & fiery displays (handled by our local volunteer rescue team). Each part of town is designated a certain color, so the crowds come dressed to represent.

Today's walk in Iceland After growing up in places where simply having sidewalks was not that common, I really appreciate that my town here has walking/biking paths (and sidewalks!) simply everywhere, in all the neighborhoods.

Saw this cat just chilling on this guy's shoulder in the middle of a street dance party at Reykjavík Culture Night. Thought of you @seismogenic.bsky.social

Today's walk in Iceland Sweating in the very sunny 15° weather. I always marvel at how much warmer that can feel here.

And just like that, my Minion is a teenager.

Today's walk in Iceland Up again on my lovely backyard mountain. That silver cannister contains a guestbook, so if you ever find yourself up here make sure to sign it.

Today's walk in Iceland Stuck to the neighborhood paths this evening