Maya
Not to mention the time Viola insisted on speaking at my school and told students the orange color found around many of Yellowstone’s hot springs is lava, red hot lava. Then she hinted that there was a plot to hide this information from the public! Although it’s true the park has had many volcanic eruptions in the past, Vi prefers to ignore evidence that the last lava flow in Yellowstone occurred about 70,000 years ago.

When I argued that most of the colors are actually microscopic living creatures such as algae and bacteria, Vi replied that microorganisms are too small to be seen without a microscope. This is true if we’re talking about single individuals, but she either can’t or won’t recognize that the bright colors are due to trillions of these tiny life forms grouped together!