Lava Flow, Big Island, Hawaii

She can destroy entire towns on a whim! When angered she will rise from the belly of her mountain home and hurl liquid fire at those who dare to cross her. She is powerful and passionate; jealous and loving; beautiful and ugly. To the people of Hawaii she is Pele, Goddess of the Volcanoes. To geologists she is known as the volcano Kilauea, Hawaii's most active land-making machine................

to me, however, she is the deeply fissured bark of the Silver Birch tree in my back garden!

Looks HOTTER in LARGE