FEBRUARY FIRE AND FROST
February Fire and Frost First part of February .....Temperatures are starting to drop. We are, as of this entry, at 19 degrees at night with a daytime high in the mid-twenties. Add in the wind-chill factor (and the wind blows here a lot), it is a wee bit nippy!! We are at about 7 hours of daylight now! It is nice to come home in the light instead of the dark. Driving to church on Sunday we were blessed with this absolutely gorgeous sun rise! Naturally, the pictures don't do it justice. It looked like the sky was on fire! Absolutely breathtaking!!! The sunsets are not to be outdone! These were taken on our way home from work! We needed to be a wee bit higher to get an unobstructed view. This one was taken looking out the back of our flat from our deck. This is the tail end of the sunset shown above. Our work here in the National Archives is to scan the Icelandic records. These include parish registers, census reco