As the ash blows across the snow, it accumulates more in depressions, sun heats black ash so depression deepens, so more ash settles there, sun heats ash…
Patterns in the snow
апреля 13, 2011Japan lr_-13
апреля 13, 2011
Fimmvörðuháls is no walk in the park
апреля 12, 2011
– A traffic jam on etna
апреля 12, 2011 
Once you drive away from Catania and its outskirts, into the more rural areas on the western and northern sides of Mount Etna, you still find a bit of the orginal Sicily that has gone lost in the more urbanized areas near the coast. Here is a typcial scene that …
Hot fingers reaching out
апреля 12, 2011 
This is a mosaic of four photos taken during an overflight of Mount Etna on 28 May 2008, showing lava flows of a new flank eruption snaking down the unpopulated Valle del Bove on the east flank of the volcano. The eruption started on 13 May and was to last …
Αἴτνη
апреля 12, 2011
Italy-catania – creative commons by gnuckx
апреля 12, 2011 
The second largest city in Sicily, Catania sits in the shadow of Europe’s highest volcano, Mount Etna, on the east of Sicily between Syracuse and Taormina. Ugly, decayed and crime-ridden today, it was once called the ‘city of black and white’ because of the use of white marble and black …
Thingvellir
апреля 12, 2011
Il vulcano etna 2
апреля 11, 2011 
L’Etna con la sua imponenza ed immensa presenza riempie ampi tratti del panorama orientale siciliano.
Onwards to the top!
апреля 10, 2011 
I passed the father and daughter team a couple of times, and they me. She was tired, he was encouraging, egging her on… I really hope they made it 
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