lawatt: day 1 -- our first stop, after Mom’s arrival & dropping stuff off at the hotel…
lawatt: Mom is here!!! hooray!
lawatt: this always strikes me as such a quintessential Icelandic landscape…
lawatt: long cascade
lawatt: Þingvallavatn
lawatt: unbelievably still
lawatt: patches of sky in the ground
lawatt: river
lawatt: water — gravel — grass
lawatt: it was SO good to be back together with Mom!
lawatt: Þingvallavatn
lawatt: lake like a mirror
lawatt: Þingvellir
lawatt: boardwalk
lawatt: formerly liquid
lawatt: mmmmmmossy
lawatt: continuing our trek around the famed Golden Circle to Geysir… for which all other geysers are named
lawatt: shhhh, it’s sleeping…
lawatt: geothermal landscape
lawatt: a hole in the earth
lawatt: our first Big Iconic Icelandic Waterfall, Gullfoss
lawatt: spray
lawatt: so. much. water.
lawatt: the patterns in the shrinking snow on the far cliff were almost as mesmerizing as the falls itself…
lawatt: the grand finale of our first incredibly-touristy day of driving around Iceland
lawatt: Gullfoss
lawatt: day 2 -- Seltjarnarnes skies
lawatt: Grótta Island lighthouse
lawatt: obligatory drying fish shot
lawatt: Mom at Kleifarvatn