Kathy S. Goes to Iceland

Kathy S. is the editor of our wonderful newsletter Matts and Fluff and our Angora Handbook. Her name is very well known in the Angora world but she is very camera shy.

She and hubby Bill went to Iceland for a trip, she says,

"We went to the volcanic nation of Iceland because I love lava and Bill is open to anything. The first photo depicts gorgeous Dvergasteinn (literally Dwarf Stone, though called Dwarfs' House or Dwarfs' Castle) on the shore of Seydisfjordur is the only chunk of lava in the vicinity. In geologic terms, Dvergasteinn is anerratic. In folkloric terms, it's a classically Icelandic tale. Both the rock and the church which shares its name started out on the south side of the fjord. The church was relocated to the north side and the dwarfs, missing human company, moved their rock. The church was moved again in 1920, but Dvergasteinn has stayed put. So far, anyway.

To show scale, here are Bill, me (and, yes, I'm giving Bill bunny ears -pathetically immature), and Dvergasteinn.

On the same fjord were many sheep. Heck, everywhere were many sheep. Ewes nurse their young in the middle of the Ring Road.

Icelandic sheep are of many colors, and here's some yarn I spun with just a few of those shades."