Iceland

     What follows is a short slideshow of photographs taken in Iceland.  The Golden Circle and South Coast are two areas that feature a small fraction of the myriad natural wonders found in Iceland, a relativity new (18 million years-old) land mass bubbling with geothermal activity, coursing with subterranean lava channels, and serving as a splitting point for the North American and Eurasian continental plates.  On the surface, vast expanses of terrariumesque, moss-covered volcanic rocks extend out to black sand beaches, the product of volcanic ash.  There are towering cinder cones covered in rich greens and sulfuric reds, dreamlands where geysers and mudpits spew steam and boiling water into the cold and windy air where billowing clouds morph and race across the bright blue sky, which simply dims during the course of the evening in the land of the midnight sun.  It is a marvelous place with wild colors, like one big dream, surpassing all expectations.