My father’s side of the family (the Icelandic side) owns a small cottage up a mountain valley. The cottage has morphed and grown over the years and a small grove is growing next to it at a typically Arctic and excruciatingly slow pace. I love being here.

Haukadalur (not the famous Haukadalur that harbours Geysir, but the other one in West Iceland)
Every time I climb up Krossbrún I mistake this rock for a bird of prey
Field gentian in late summer
Common cottongrass in an abandoned meadow next to the summer house
Kirkjufell in winter
Common moonwort growing between crowberry. Possibly my favourite plant, because it looks so alien
Getting to the summer house isn’t always an easy thing

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