Unearthly Landscape

Every day there is some unexpected sight.  Today was no exception.  And the sight was Lava, Lava, everywhere, and nothing else to see---(except scrub brush).

We took a non-interstate way--the famous cross-country Route 20.  It was a bit slower than the interstate, but more up-close and personal.  We saw lots of crops, but mostly endless scrub brush!

The Craters of the Moon side trip was out of this world.

This is a vast area of 750,000 acres of lava eruptions from volcanos.   It was described by President Coolidge as "a weird and scenic landscape, peculiar to itself."  He is the one who preserved it as a national monument.  It was mostly avoided by all travelers and not even explored nor mapped until the 1950's

The area was so named because it looked like what the moon looked like through a telescope.

 

 

Despite this harsh and inhospitable environment, plant life emerges.  Life will find a way.

 

Pink Flowers growing out of Lava Rock