The Blazing Sun of June

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[Photos taken 01-04 June 2019, posted online 26 December 2019. Happy Holidays to all! Been a month since the last update as yuletide-prep ate my blogging time.]

Being six months behind on blogging means that at the peak of darkness, I’m rediscovering life near the peak of brightness. There could be a worse fate!

Apparently, walks around the neighborhood loomed large in the everlasting sunshine, and ongoing drought. We also managed to visit house #2, where more progress was made on the guest-house, thanks to crafty friends! (35-ish images total)

Saturday 01 June 2019

Walking among the lupines.
Shrubbery in full bloom.
See the parched grass? May and June combined had no rain for six weeks! But it made for excellent Qi-Gong exercising conditions!
Optical illusion paint-job on a high-rise.
I took the girls to a gardening center to pick up some summer flowers to plant by house #2.
A few hours later, this was my view.
Inside, everyone was keeping busy!
Outside, everyone was also keeping busy! We’re lucky to have friends who can hook up hot-water floor-heating systems!
The recipient of the floor-heating-system activation!
I optimistically planted some flowers in spite of the ongoing drought, it took a painfully long time to get moisture into the soil.
After-dinner walk to the lake, to take a few photos.
Squinting into the sun at 8:30 pm.
An ex-caldera in the background.
It’s a long skinny lake.
Screenshot from a snap from Anna.
Anna found a stream.
The evening sun, high in the sky, at 9 pm.
Making our way back.
Awww, flowers!!
Some adult quality time at 11 pm, although you wouldn’t know it by the sunlight. 🙂

Sunday 02 June 2019

The day after we returned to town early enough for me to do a bit of gardening, and for Bjarki to play with the water hose that was now seeing regular usage, with there being no rain!
A few self-sown baby birch trees salvaged into a tray as I was weeding.
There were a lot of self-sown birch babies!

Monday 03 June 2019

The spring tasks continued, with Finnur washing the deck so that I could stain it.
Emma painting on a stone.
Look, no weeds! (In that particular spot in the garden!)
Anna set out on her two-night-long graduation trip with the other 10th graders to the north of the country.
Bjarki’s gymnastics group kept preparing for an upcoming meet.
I couldn’t help myself, and went on yet another post-dinner walk. There was very little sleeping going on in June, as there were zero clouds, and constant sunshine.
Golfers.
More high rises.
Looking towards Mount Esja.
At 9:30 pm I happened to walk past the school, and found Emma there playing with her friend! I chased them home, as it was late!

Tuesday 04 June 2019

Taking an obligatory photo of Emma with the take-home-and-dog-sit-for-a-couple-of-days dog from daycare. We were asked to write what we did with him in a special journal, with photos.