Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Craters of the Moon



Craters of the Moon National Monument was one of the first places I visited when I moved to Idaho more than three decades ago, and it's a place to which I often return. A landscape of lava flows and craters, limber pine and rabbit brush, its mood changes dramatically with the weather. Yesterday morning we awoke to golden light streaming across the lava, backed by darkening clouds which turned to swift-moving snow squalls.