Dear Nalini ji, Hearing from you after a very long while. Nice to see all the flowers. Quite different from the ones we see here. Best wishes & Happy New Year to you too. Regards, Aarti
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:34:52 PM UTC+4, nabha wrote: > > in Summer of 2012 we visited faroe-islands, Iceland and Greenland. > > Though I made many many fotos there, I have to choose a few. I did it > today. Though it is nice to see the old fotos, I don't feel like doing it > today, when it is snow everywhere and the temperatures are below -10.ï¿œ I > just went quickly thru my collection and chose the ones I found remarkable. > > In Iceland I remember to have seenï¿œ Wollgras (*Eriophorum scheuchzeri*)ï¿œ > and arctic poppyï¿œ (*Papaver radicatum*) in white, yellow, to orange. > But more than that there was Hundskamille (*anthemis*) everywhere, in the > harbour, wastelands, along the roads, everywhere.ï¿œ In * > Seyï¿œisfjï¿œrï¿œur*ï¿œ ( Iceland ï¿œ 65ￜￜ16′ï¿œN, 14ￜￜ1′ï¿œW > <http://toolserver.org/%7Egeohack/geohack.php?pagename=Sey%C3%B0isfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur&language=de¶ms=65.263055555556_N_14.008888888889_W_region:IS_type:city%28717%29> > )<http://toolserver.org/%7Egeohack/geohack.php?pagename=Sey%C3%B0isfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur&language=de¶ms=65.263055555556_N_14.008888888889_W_region:IS_type:city%28717%29>I > found one orchidee Nï¿œrdliche Kuckucksblume near a waterfall. I could > not go very near to it. I am attaching these Fotos here. > In Akureyri in iceland there is a wonderful botanical garden, worth > visiting. > > In Greenland too there was beautiful vegetation, Moos withï¿œ small > flowers, Lichens on the rocks, colorful from white to deep orange. But I > remember the beautiful sunny and warm (!) day in > *Qeqertarsuaq**ￜￜ*Greenlandￜￜ > 69ￜￜ14′ï¿œ45″ï¿œN, > 53ￜￜ32′ï¿œ14″ï¿œW.<http://toolserver.org/%7Egeohack/geohack.php?pagename=Qeqertarsuaq&language=de¶ms=69.245833333333_N_53.537222222222_W_dim:10000_region:GL_type:city%28858%29>ï¿œ > > Here too I watched dandelion, vogelmiere (stellaria) etc, but Arktische > Weidenrï¿œschen (*Epilobium-latifolium*) was the one, making the land > smile under the blue sky. > > I hope you enjoy the fotos > Best wishes for 2013 somewhat late but from heart. > > Regards > Nalini > --
