His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.

It was such a beautiful day in S´Krók today that I had to share it, and seeing as though I am taking to time to write a blog I thought I would add a few more... Last weekend was the weekend of Laufskálarétt - where they get the horses down from the mountains and thousands of people decend on this little town and cause havoc.... and what would have to be the social event of the year. This first shot is taken from my place of work - between the church and the tower - far in the distance is the Laufskálarétt. The "leaf bowl coral"

The picture below is of horses and riders coming down the hill - nowadays its more horses and riders and less of the horses being brought down. This has become a major tourist attraction for Icelanders, local and reykjavikites as well as a few foreign tourists that are attracted to Iceland because of the breed.

This pic shows some of the horses that have come down - as you can see there are probably just as many people already gathered around the coral. This is probably the main reason I never actually go to the rétt.

After having been at work (hence my being in the area at the time) I came home to a woeful dog - no edit that - to a dog demanding a walk. Seeing as though the weather was superb we went to the beach

She is so happy when is gets to run free.. Anyway - as I said this IS THE social event of the year for me, so it has to start with a good dinner. This year I was the host and a few people popped over for chili mussels, roast fillet of beef and the best berry dessert ever created (cousin Herdís has all the honours for creating it)

My table seats 12 - just. I think we managed 15 bottles of wine between us - which just tells a little of the story. Anyway, not all headed to the dance, Maggi, his two friends from reykjavik Guðný and myself went in a taxi to the equestrian centre (the only place big enough). Needless to say I did not take my camera (having learned the lesson from Maja). It was a terrific evening - lots of dancing, meeting up with folks and general "loss of time" type evening, which meant that I was home in bed at 5am. Needless to say Sunday was very relaxed.

Since then the snow came again. The window on this photo is my "window to the world", as you may or may not see it has a lot of little souveniers, the top shelf has pewter models from different places that I have been to - you can sort of make out the Brandenburg gate, a knight, and a tower. the bottom shelf has replicas of houses - most of these are from Iceland, but Prague is there, Amsterdam and Skye. This would have to be one of my favourite views in the house because everytime I look out of this window so many other memories and thoughts come flooding through. The point of the shot though is obviously the fact that the trees outside are coated with snow. I suppose I don´t need to add that this window will never have curtains

Today, as I said, was a perfect cold winters day, snow on the ground, still and clear. So I could not resist the whining coming from Freyja, so first we went up to the cemetary where I met up with Huginn and Muginn, the crows that report back to Odin. By the time I got my camera out Huginn had taken off with only Muginn leff to check me out.

Tindastóll was looking his best.

Later in the afternoon, Freyja decided that we needed to check out the Northern end of the town, so we went down to the harbour and the area where they hang the fish to dry

Drangey can be seen through the wooden poles where they hang fish and fish heads. the fish is used for local consumption but the fish heads are all exported to some place in Africa (I really must become more knowledgable on these things)

this though is what it is all about - clear blue sky, chrystal clear blue water.. I do so love this place.