Winter Wonderland as February Begins (with Mini-FFF)
[Photos and blog entry from Sunday 01 February 2015. Enjoy!]
Hey, it’s February!! How’d that happen?!?!
We were expecting afternoon visitors, but they had to cancel, so instead I took the big kids to the library (+ quick FFF stop at the photography museum showroom), coffee house, and Nökkvi’s library, before taking Emma outside, and then ending up making a ton of snowmen, because the snow was perfect! (30 images total)
Winter Wonderland!
A sibling huuuug.
Emma’s got lots of new facial expressions.
At the library I skipped on up to the 6th floor to check out the newest photography show.
Oooh! The US base in Iceland after it closed. Neat!
These photos all had something very US in them.
Ordinary kitchen except for the extra-wide fridge, not normally found in Iceland.
US style washing machines, and AT&T phone-booth.
Moar base photos.
This is what fun looks like! Officer’s club on the left, some ‘bar’ on the right.
Who’re you gonna call?
The phrase ‘Use of deadly force is authorized’ is here translated to ‘Weapon usage permitted if needed’ in Icelandic. That’s not quite the same thing!
A guest checking out the school photos.
Supermarket, main entry gate, empty swimming pool. Back in the day, the main Icelandic international airport was located INSIDE the base, so I have a vague memory of passing through that gate to get to the terminal.
Yes, I want that on my bleachers too. Not.
The video room had a long photo slide-show running. Some of these photos were featured in the Photos by Women show, and were among my favorites there.
These were basically a bunch of photos of people in their homes, but only half-posed. Pretty good series overall.
Outside the main hall was a tiny show of long-exposures.
Nice and soft. Tripods are fabulous things.
As always, the stairwell holds fun images too.
After the library we got some hot chocolate. Yum!
Goodness Bonanza!
I like this bookshop/coffee house. We spent a while there reading, waiting for Nökkvi’s library to open.
Close to 6pm I took Emma outside (well, I’d made Anna stay outside with her for 10 minutes, but then I took over). She manged to fall off the swings, but the snow was nice and soft, so it was ok.
Making snowmen in the backyard.
The three amigos.
Looking in.
Bjarki was afraid the first snowman we built would feel lonely, so he gave him a friend to hug.
Inserting a rock, aka brain, into their heads.
That’s all folks!