Sunday, February 02, 2014

地獄谷

In Japan - perhaps I'll find this is true in China too - there are places known as jigokudani, "hell valleys," usually uncanny places that smell of sulfur. This creepy picture of a reservoir in Nevada at 3.5% capacity, part of a frightening article about the drought in the American West - worst in five hundred years! - called that phrase to mind...