The old, brownish lava in the foreground has been around for quite a while. It is even capable of supporting a modicum of vegetation.
The newer, black lava flow in the distance (only a couple hundred years old, if memory serves) had no trouble rolling right over whatever used to grow there.
A forlorn-looking landscape, indeed, yet less forbidding than many vistas on the Big Island, where there is only lava as far as the eye can see.
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