Living In the World, Not on It

The Blue Memory Meme, Part Two Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme. Let's go!!! Today we ripped off a blogger and...

This is the greatest image I have ever seen of phraetic activity in a volcano. I have no idea how it got that rich blue colour. I've seen the typical grey lava, some black lava and the freaky white lava, but never this colour. I love it! This is a gorgeous image. The Volcano is the Volcán Rincón de la Vieja in Costa Rica, one that I am not very familiar with - the more commonly known Costa Rican volcano is Arenal, who blows its stack quite frequently. I've read about Vieja as I have all the volcanoes currently active there, but I had no idea it would produce such an interesting colour. I love it. It is really gorgeous! I always wanted to go see a live working volcano, which I did in June 2009, when I went to Montana. The whole of Yellowstone National Park is inside a huge caldera and is still very volcanically and seismically active. Granted that most people may not realise that they are standing in such an enormous caldera or how active it really is, but I en...