Autumn is already here in Iceland

Reading Kati's last post I realized that autumn isn't really there in Hungary yet. Well, I may not know a lot about the seasons over there, so maybe the people in Hungary are already talking about autumn, but at least the trees are still green.

Here in Hornafjörður autumn came early this year. Toggi, my son, and I saw ice on puddles already early in September on the way to our daily morning swim. Well, that's not really unusual, but in the northern part of the country they've already had considerable snow.

Luckily we don't have much snow here in the south-east during winter but even so the mountains are becoming white almost down to the ground. Only a few days ago the mountains you see in the picture on the right were snow free.

These pictures were taken a couple of days ago in my front yard. It was quite windy that day and a lot of the leaves have now been blown off the trees. Those which still remain are almost all brown, yellow and red.

Most of the migrating birds have left by now, the last of the geese and swans will probably be gone when we get back. Winter's just round the corner it seems.

Time to start thinking of Christmas ;-)