A scene that looks fake, Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. The longer you stare at it, the more it seems like a painting. It is just there, completely out of place. The light danced around it when we arrived, changing minute by minute as the enormous clouds blocked the sun—a great stop on the way west. I waited out two horses to get one photo, asking them nicely to pose or at least move away from each other. Most of the time, it looked like one horse and two heads. I did manage to get the one I wanted on the third visit to the spot. And no, I have not seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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