Remember in the late 80s/early 90s all the rage was 3D
hidden image stereograms? If you stared at the picture long enough and knew how
to adjust your eyes, a 3D image would suddenly pop up. It took me the longest time
to learn how to do it, but once I did it was a pretty cool thing to do.
When I hike I often see faces in rock formations where
others see nothing. Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi Provincial
Park is the place I have seen the most, and the spiritual me understands why
the sandstone cliffs and hoodoos along the Milk River are sacred to the
Blackfoot and other First Nations. It is indeed a very special place.
In Iceland I saw a fair number of rock faces, too. The first
was on Day 1 when we stopped to admire rock formations of hardened lava along
the highway. It didn’t take much to imagine the molten lava floating down in
waves before cooling off. There are two faces in this picture. The one in the
middle of the picture has a lot of hair sticking straight up from his head and
he is looking at you. The one to the right of him just has a couple of strands
of hair and a very pronounced right eye. He is lying down looking up.
One evening we took a short walk in the Fjadrarglijufur
Canyon after supper where I discovered a lady’s face in profile. The first
“bump” under the green moss is her forehead; the second is her nose; her mouth
and chin are under that.
The icebergs in the Jokulsarlon Glacial Lagoon were
incredibly beautiful in the sunshine and nature’s work of art. In one of the
icebergs I saw an alien’s face lying down looking up. His mouth is slightly
open and the sun shines through his eye.
A woman in Sudureyri told us about the Lady in the Cloak.
She did not do her chores when she was supposed to, but wrapped herself in her
cloak and took a nap instead. She never woke up and turned to stone! Parents
would tell the story to their children to make them do their chores, “or you
will turn to stone like the Lady in the Cloak!”
On our last day in Iceland we hiked through arctic birch
brush to Eldborg Crater. Along the way Jan took this picture of a craggy lava
rock. He thought it was a neat rock… I saw a lioness in front of her mate, both
in profile.
How did you do? Were you able to see my faces? Let me know!
