Coreen's "Best of 2010"

Last summer, we visited the state of Idaho and found a lot of interesting and strange places.  The strangest place was the Craters of the Moon National Monument.   It is a huge lava field that spreads for miles as the result of several volcanic explosions.   It is not pretty but very interesting.   We walked all through the field on paths and then climbed a lava mountain that reached about 1500 feet.
We took this picture from the top of that mount.  It is difficult to see the end of the mountain and the beginning of the landscape below because they are all black.  Some of the astronauts that went to the moon trained here because the landscape is so much like the moon.  It was really a hot day and the black lava rocks radiated that sunlight right back to us.  It was surreal.