Seasons 2

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Spring came very late in 2013. In the north, in May, snow lay thick in many places and Lake Mývatn was still mostly frozen over.

Hólar, North Iceland

Hólar, North Iceland

Lake Mývatn, North Iceland

Pseudo crater, Lake Mývatn, North Iceland

Also, during the previous autumn there had been storms, which meant that many trees went into the winter with branches already laden with part melted snow, refrozen as ice. The cumulative weight of snow and ice through the winter proved too much for many of them and they collapsed. This photo was taken on Hrísey, an island in Eyafjorður in the municipality of Akureyri, North Iceland.

 So it was that we found ourselves clearing and pruning damaged trees at Dimmuborgir, North Iceland, near Lake Mývatn...

...and clearing snow from the viewing platform at Botnstjőrn,  Ásbyrgi, North Iceland.

2013 was an unusual year. This picture of Ásbyrgi was taken in early May the following year, 2014.