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Last nite we stayed in the "big" city of Burns. It should be the mosquito and cricket capital of the world. In the morning, a cricket walked over Arleen's mouth. Yuck!! We stayed in a different, more expensive motel the next nite.

We went to the Diamond Crater area for the day. It is not a national park or monument, just a point of interest.

The area is full of craters. Not the kind that are on the top of hills or mountains, but the kind that are just in the ground. Here are some pictures of some of them.

This one has had water in it for 6 thousand years and scientists are able to get lots of info from the sediment that has settled in the bottom.
See the 2 craters in the distance.

A big crater right in front of us and a cinder covered crater in the distance

Just imagine .... Oregon is the remnant of a living, farting landscape. (when you go to the bathroom, first you release gas, then solids and then maybe some more gas.....that is how many eruptions occurred.....ergo...farts:) )

When the gas filled first part of the eruption threw rocks into the air and made cinder. Then there would be a lava flow of solid material. Then there might be more cinder. See the similarities.