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WaterproofBorgarfjararhfn, Iceland The drizzle had been coming in all morning, the kind that doesn't commit to being rain but accumulates anyway, and the wind off the water had that particular Icelandic quality of cold that finds the gaps. The puffins on the outcropping did not adjust. They settled into the grass the way they always settle, round and low, and stayed there. Atlantic puffins spend most of their lives at sea, returning to land only to breed. They

They are touching along the full length of themselves

📍 Volcanoes National Park

taking everything in

apparently

and it came out exactly as imagined

and a pride that has eaten recently has no reason to be anywhere other than exactly here

and the earth becomes the frame

winter arrives with intention

unhurried and entirely hidden — or so she thought

The burrow is somewhere behind

and he had not yet decided whether I was in his way

carefully managed tension