The Wrath Of Merapi

Somebody sent me an email of pictures taken after the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia (more picture coverage here). I've taken the liberty to include the pictures here as a reminder to ourselves that nature can inflict untold horror. Despite human great technological advancement to date we have not been able to predict let alone control mother earth behavior.

But it is all natures cycle of life. The ash spew that killed hundreds now, will make the land more fertile later and that will provide for more lives after that....