{"id":197,"date":"2023-11-02T00:22:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T00:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2023-11-04T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T00:22:33","slug":"day-2-stodvarfjordur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/02\/day-2-stodvarfjordur\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 &#8212; St\u00f6\u00f0varfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long hike.  Lots of rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making lists of things to write and topics to concentrate on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not many pictures because I spent a lot of time indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had our orientation at the Fish Factory building and went over what we thought we&#8217;d be working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-2000x1126.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231101_163504-1200x676.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our group includes someone doing woodwork, someone doing shadow puppetry, someone doing an art book, and someone who wasn&#8217;t quite sure what she&#8217;d be working on (possibly music and\/or performance art).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My focus has widened a little and I know it&#8217;s now going to include elements of mythology and a focus on water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stream in St\u00f6\u00f0varfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMz6h-VQ0r0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is water everywhere here.  So much that it&#8217;s easy to forget about.  First there&#8217;s the fact that we&#8217;re on an island on a fjord.  Then there&#8217;s the streams and waterfalls everywhere and the rain that causes the water to come down from the hills in sometimes fierce streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often find myself missing the real weather, so I think I&#8217;m going to get a ton of it when I&#8217;m here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s just above freezing so all the precipitation is coming down as rain.  A couple degrees cooler (hopefully next week) and this all turns to snow, which will make getting around both harder and easier.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m doing some cool things over on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/EchoesOfIceland\">Echoes of Iceland Patreon page <\/a>(also: hey, I have a Patreon, which you can follow for free and support if you have some spare $$ and get some cool rewards), including the 9:30 Photographs, photos from the same two windows of the house we&#8217;re I&#8217;m staying, taken at 9:30 a.m. each morning.  At the moment, that&#8217;s after sunrise, but it won&#8217;t be before too long.  (Don&#8217;t worry, there will still be enough pre-dawn light to see things every day&#8230; but the change in the lighting should be amazing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrote the second story this afternoon and decided I&#8217;m going to try to work in a very cool (but not heated) room upstairs in the fish factory that has a fantastic view of the fjord.  Hopefully tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrote the 2nd of the 30 stories this evening, too.  Hoping to get over the jet lag at some point in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carved of Wood and Flesh\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lwA-equgSGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been too rainy and too windy to take the drone up, but I&#8217;m hoping that could change in the next few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"There Might Be Pumpkins\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAMftfrWwwQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long hike. Lots of rain. Making lists of things to write and topics to concentrate on. Not many pictures because I spent a lot of time indoors. Had our orientation at the Fish Factory building and went over what we thought we&#8217;d be working on. Our group includes someone doing woodwork, someone doing shadow puppetry, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/02\/day-2-stodvarfjordur\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 2 &#8212; St\u00f6\u00f0varfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}