Baldur Bjarnason

Other photos (26 August 2024)

– Baldur Bjarnason

I haven’t just been using the iPhone camera. These are a few photos I took these past few days in my garden and during my walks.

Four starlings perching on an evergreen tree. Fluffed up and staying put. Four starlings still perching. Two of them are preening. An Icelandic sheep loafs unaffected by the weather A raven swoops past a parking lot Horse portrait. It’s a portrait picture of a horse A horse grazing. In the background you can see other horses in the same field. A geothermal well belches out steam.

Here’s a story in three parts:

A brown Icelandic horse is grazing on its own. A white Icelandic horse is walking The brown and the white horse stand together, looking chill.

A redcurrant bush hybrid in the garden has been getting quite a bit of bird traffic lately. Though they always stop in the nearby evergreen first to make sure it’s safe first.

According to my dad, this particular type of redcurrant is a hybrid originally created here in Hveragerði, and is now very common in Icelandic gardens.

Hveragerði has been a horticultural and forestry centre for a long while. And Iceland’s horticultural school is based here.

There’s a hybrid redcurrant of this type in my grandmother’s garden. It was grown from a cutting from the plant my great granddad planted in the garden where she grew up. He had bought that plant from Hveragerði, which, considering the Icelandic road system at the time, was A Journey that required considerable dedication to gardening.

A couple of starlings lounge on an evergreen tree branch A starling perches on a redcurrant bush branch, about to eat A redwing perches on an evergreen tree branch and scopes out the area That same redwing in the bush about to dine on some berries