The visual effect is of a sea of lava.
Her bathroom was a frilly gift that one girl might give to another, an assortment of powders, soaps, oils, lotions, perfumes, sea sponges, lava stones, and so on.
The engines of tourism and economic development raced past Hilo, creating, in a sense, a kipuka -- an oasis of green in a sea of lava.
As flaming meteorites from outer space bombard a "red-hot sea of lava," we see fireworks over fiery mountaintops in a bright-red soup: a beautifully horrifying hellscape, necessary to create what we now inhabit.
WHAT TO DO DURING THE DAY A visit to Timanfaya National Park and the Mountains of Fire, (34-928) 840-057, a 20-square-mile sea of lava and exploded craters, allows one to easily imagine the onslaught of molten rock that formed the landscape 300 years ago.
Climbing to the top of a hill, I was greeted with the most amazing scene: a gigantic sea of molten lava swirling and crackling before my eyes.
In the middle of the structure, on the central dome, there's the unforgettable image of a man on fire, floating in a sea of infernal lava, giving the disorientating impression we're looking heavenwards into the flames of damnation.
Thirty dollars, for instance, will bankroll a tasting selection that amounts to two bites each of, say, pink snapper with black lava sea salt, weakfish with a thin sliver of preserved blood-orange rind, opah with baby fennel and wild-fennel pollen, yellowtail with Gaeta-olive aioli, kingfish with pickled fiddlehead, and fluke with sea beans and radish.
She translated that idea to the store's street front, where she planted tall, ghostly colored cacti, giant birds of paradise and various succulents in blue and silver tones, all "floating in a sea" of black lava gravel, with planters that mimic the shapes of the display fixtures inside the store.
