Volcanoes and other odd and ends
I am sitting here at home with a sinus infection and in between doing work work, gardening, and walking on the road to get fresh air, doing dishes and drinking tea, and sleeping and sniffling with a headache, I find little gems online.
How about this modelmaker, using body parts as backgrounds: ski slope, paint job, and bee keeper?
And this old photo of a combined beer garden, barbeque joint and gas station from 1940's Louisiana? I bet that bbq was good, not so sure about the beer :).
Katla was also the name of the fire-spouting fierceful dragon in the faraway country Narnia in Astrid Lindgren's book The Brothers Lionheart, a book I loved as a kid and still have in my bookcase.
The postcard is from 1918, the last time Katla erupted on Iceland.
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Apparently eruption is called eldgos in icelandic- eld=fire and gos is gas/fumes.
If you look at the picture of the eruption LS posted from 1918, it says Kötlugosid- which is the name for Katla (fem.) + eruption in determined form. Nice with some lingustics, don´t you think? Icelandic and swedish is closely related, but when the swedish transformed, the icelandic did not. A swede doesn´t understand icelandic except for some words. But relatively easy to learn :-)
That "beer garden" looks strangely like the gas station from my rural Oregon story.
Sarah, that is very much was I was thinking too! :)
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