Awesome Volcano!

(photo by Marco Fulle, Stromboli Online)
This is really the most amazing volcano photo yet, of "our" volcano of course, you can recognize it by the little streak of rock running up to the crater, (can't you see it??)  No? Never mind, you will probably eventually have every nook and cranny of Eyafjallajökull figured out by the time this is over....which at the rate things are going may be quite some time from now!.  But really we are fine and as ong as we don't read too many scary newscasts about what is happening we are fine!

 Whoever took this photo must have had one of those HUGE lenses that they take photos of space from, because the night he took this, the police were not taking any chances and they had blocked the road from exactly our road and no one could get any closer than chez nous.  I hear the lightning is totally dangerous and lots of livestock and a few people were killed in another eruption, thank the Lord not this one.  My dear husband came home tonight with the free dust masks that we will, may have to wear at some point in time.  Tonight the wind shifted to the south west so that meant that we were still pretty safe as we live north west of the volcano, whew!  We have large rolls of brown tape with which to seal the windows, just in case, having heard that this helps a lot.

 But the best news is that the volcano is slowing with all the spewing and belching and is now settling down somewhat and we have a nice little lava display right on the very top-- quite visible to the naked eye from our lookout in the bathroom.  I must say though, I hope this is not some sort of tourist signal as lava seems to be the tourist magnate par excellance.  Especially since our local breed of tourist from Reykjavik seem to be none too bright as far as safety and precaution is concerned out in the boonies of Icelandic wilderness which begins just a few miles from our house.  Sadly, 2 Icelandic people got lost while trying to watch the earlier eruption of Fimmvörðuháls and died of exposure after less than 48 hours of getting lost....and that was not on the 5 hour hike up the mountain pass like you might have expected.  There were literally hundreds of other cars all cramming into Fljótslið along with them, so how they got separated from the others and why they left their car and died several kilometres from their car is a mystery.....   For this reason I am happy that the police are not letting people wander all over the place right now.