The 100 Day Project #28
Godafoss Plains
Godafoss, Region of Kinn, Iceland, 2025
The 100 Day Project, Day 28
I want to print this photo really big. So big you will feel like you can step right into it and take a walk across the high plains of northern Iceland as the sun falls toward the horizon and rakes its light across the wildflowers.
Last August, my husband Mike and I rented a camper van and spent a week traveling Iceland's Ring Road. It was a sublime way to return to a country that had bewitched us years before we ever properly visited it. On our honeymoon, traveling from JFK to Geneva to begin three weeks of train travel across Europe, we had an early morning layover at Keflavík.
It was an immediate feeling that hit both of us. A deep pull to the landscape. We spent that layover sipping coffee, eating skyr, and quietly staring out the window — murmuring promises to return someday. We even briefly considered ditching the whole honeymoon to explore Iceland.
We had originally planned to make the return trip for our 10th wedding anniversary. Life had other plans for us. When the anniversary arrived we were in the thick of helping care for my father-in-law as advancing memory loss took him further and further from us. We delayed the trip and eventually folded it into my 50th birthday celebrations last August — which turned out to be exactly the right time.
I have never been anywhere as beautiful and ever-changing as Iceland. Mike summed it up perfectly: "It's like they took all the national parks and put them together and made an island." One minute you're in lava fields that are millennia old, the next you're in something that looks like the midwestern plains, and then moments later you're in Big Sur.
We fell so deeply in love with the country that we popped back into Reykjavík this past February while on our way to the U.K. where Mike had a reunion gig with a band he used to play with. Iceland has become a muse, a kindred spirit, a calming presence. I wouldn't be surprised if we relocate there for long periods of time over the course of the coming years.
About the 100 Day Project: A global creative challenge where thousands of artists share a piece of their practice every single day for 100 days. I'm joining creatives around the world, and I'm excited to bring you along. Each day I'll be sharing one of my photos — some recent, some old, and some from my current project — along with the story behind it: where I was, who I was with, and why I love it.