Resilient vegetation

Traveling through the ash fallout area in the south of Iceland, one would not guess that everything was covered with a thick layer of ash in May. Vegetation has in most places grown up through the ash and completely covers large areas; of course where there was vegetation before.

From Eldgosið í Eyjafjallajökli

This image, already from May 5 - when the eruption was still going strong - shows how green the field were, despite having been covered just a few weeks earlier with ash !