Ceiba speciosa
Buddha is the name of the towering silk floss tree across the street. While walking the dog day or night (Sir Didymus of Dunbar), we stop to rub the bulbous trunk for good luck. Each kurinuki piece below features textured sections of raw stoneware created when pressed against the curious bark of the South American native.
Silk Floss 1
Silk Floss 2
Silk Floss 3
Click each artist’s name to explore more of their work, or here for an interactive map of street art around Reykjavik.
Kids Don’t Float (Neil Martin Horvath)
Lóndrangar
When magma solidified inside the vent of an ancient volcano, the Lóndrangar rock formation was created. Over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, the softer volcanic cone surrounding the magma eroded away, leaving the two towers standing above the coast.
Some believe Lóndrangar is the entrance of a fortress that leads to the unseen kingdom of the huldufólk (hidden people). They look like humans and live in a parallel world.
Racomitrium lanuginosum
Moss is the first plant to grow atop porous basalt. As it slowly breaks down the rock, soil forms, allowing other plants to take root. It’s protected under Icelandic law.
Black Sand Beach
Armeria maritima
Silene uniflora
Plantago maritima
Mertensia maritima
Mertensia maritima
Rhodiola rosea
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Mycale lingua
Cairn Marks the Grave of Björn Pétursson
Born in 1555, Björn Pétursson is known as Iceland’s only serial killer. He confessed to murdering and robbing nine travelers who entered his property. Once executed, his body was chopped into pieces and buried at three different locations to make sure he couldn’t come back to haunt the folks who convicted him. Near Snæfellsjökull National Park, the cairn above is the only remaining site of the three.
Leymus arenarius
Tide Pool
Littorina obtusata
Palmaria palmata
Ytri Tunga Beach
Cloud Waterfall and Stream
Achillea millefolium
Stykkishólmur, Iceland
Arctic Disc Golf
Stykkishólmur Church
Faxaflói Bay
Salty and Edible Sesuvium portulacastrum
Unmoored Dock
Calotropis gigantea
Adirondack Rail Trail Bog
Rail Trail Bend
Trifolium aureum
Straightaway
Lonicera tatarica
Trail Treadmarks
Typha latifolia
Taraxacum officinale
Taraxacum officinale
Betula pendula and Granite
Myosotis scorpioides
Hylocereus undatus
Steps to the PierSide Grill and Famous Blowfish Bar
Steps to the PierSide Grill and Famous Blowfish Bar
Fort Myers Fishing Pier
Procyon lotor
The bike path’s much less treacherous than the road to St James City.
Charadrius wilsonia
Ride your bike south along Stringfellow Road from Pine Island to St James City, and you’ll meet plovers resting atop this bebarnacled perch.
Opuntia ficus-indica and Polistes gallicus
Cellana exarata
When this photo snaps, a man scales cliffs like a goat between massive sets of waves, scraping opihi and shoving them into his back pocket. Click here for info and lore.
Cellana exarata
Keaau Cliff
Mana
Facing West From Kailua-Kona
Facing West From Kailua-Kona
Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
This three-foot death bloom emerged in the succulent garden months ago and continues today. Kalanchoes are monocarpic like aloe and some bromeliads, which means they grow a spectacular flower spike and then die.
Lonicera sempervirens
Trichechus manatus latirostris
Manatees like this one, seemingly comfortable surfacing while munching sea grass next to a biped on a paddle board at Manatee Park, sense the world around them with hairs called vibrissae, densely packed around their mouths and faces. They’re highly sensitive to touch and help sea cows detect changes in water currents and textures, allowing them to explore and forage. Prehensile lips grab and pull food toward their mouths like elephants, alpacas, rhinos, and horses. Click here to view more photos from an afternoon paddle at Manatee Park and along the Orange River.
