Rainbows in April

April in Iceland has been a good month for rainbows.  The famously changeable weather means that we have had frequent rain/sleet/snow followed by clearing skies and sunshine--and the cycle repeats itself every half hour or so.  So we have seen many rainbows this month; here are just a few:

This is the view from Skerjafjörður, with a rainbow over Vesturbær and Seltjarnarnes, right at the beginning of April.  The view from this little part of the island is still just wonderful; a few days later it was clear enough to see the glacier, Snæfellsjökull (I'll post photos of this in another posting).  We are told this is common in summer when there are more clear days; there have only been a few days so far that it has been clear enough to see that far.  But the rainbows are great.
 

We took a trip to the south of Iceland on April 15 and 16, and stayed at a lovely guest farm right near Eyjafjallajökull, a bit west of Vík, called Sólheimajáleiga.  It is a working farm, and the cottage we stayed in had been the farm house, the traditional kind that is attached to the barn. We enjoyed seeing the sheep and the cattle, talking with the family about farming in Iceland, the effects of the financial crisis and then the volcano last year on their farm.  In the morning while visiting the sheep we enjoyed seeing this rainbow.

Then on the drive from Vík to Kirkjubæjarklauster, 

we saw more rainbows, including this one:

On April 20 we drove around part of the Reykjanes peninsula, and on our way through Hafnafjörður, we saw this rainbow.

And finally, on a trip to the north last weekend, we saw this rainbow a bit south of Laugarbakki.  It's a little hard to see (hard to catch rainbows on an ordinary camera) but from the road we could see the whole rainbow, the left side here, and the right side stretched down into the river that you also cannot see in this photo!

The weather cleared today (April 27) and it was a bit warmer. April has been stormy, but we have enjoyed the rainbows.
April 28 postscript: As I came home in the late afternoon, this rainbow was visible over the airfield; it looks like it is coming from Hallgrimskirkja, so I just had to share it too!