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The winter in Iceland is long & cold. They compensate by using a lot of bold colors, like the roof of this church in Vik.

We’re in Iceland! On our first day we took a food tour of Reykjavik, which I highly recommend. Thor, the guide, provided a great deal of interesting history & culture along with the food. At our first stop we had these thin rolled pancakes with raspberry jam, whipped cream, and (of course) coffee.

I have fond memories of my dad using this hinged souffle-style omelet pan when I was a kid. I don’t use it much because it needs 3 eggs, which is more than I usually want. But we had some egg whites leftover from something else so I was able to get enough volume from one real egg.

Result:

There is a mail chute in the old 11-story building my office moved to. Despite there being a post office in the building, I doubt dropping a piece of mail in here would do anything useful.

In preparation for our upcoming trip to Iceland, I bought a camera lens that’s wider-angle than any I’ve owned before. I am not used to shooting with a lens like this, so today I went out for some practice.

The shot of this building that I like the best is 24mm, which is previously as wide as I could go (except for my fisheye lens). Below is the new widest, 14mm, from the same spot.

 

Kat has this adorable holiday decoration, hand-crafted by a friend of hers.

Lis took me to see the Squirrel Nut Zippers up in Beverly.

This pic was taken earlier in the show than hers, when the musicians were all still playing the same instrument they came on stage with.

I took advantage of ducks being available in my market today, and bought one to cut up for the freezer. The proceeds include a whole pint of this liquid gold.

There’s more than one cultural reference that can get stuck in your head when you’re preparing fava beans.

I looked out the kitchen window just in time to see a hawk land on our fence. It stuck around for long enough to get a few pictures. We’re pretty sure it’s a Cooper’s hawk. It wasn’t until reviewing the photos that I realized in one, it was looking right at me.