This one has gotten a lot of love over on Flickr.  This is Teter rock, which lives in the middle of nowhere in the Flint Hills of Kansas.  It’s basically a big chunk of limestone which, in Pioneer days, someone turned on its end and chucked into the ground.  It sits on a relatively high point and can be seen for miles.  In the valley below there used to be a trade post, and the rock was intended to guide settlers who were traveling the plains to the trade post.

The clouds behaved particularly well that day.  This shot, like the earlier shot of the faucet by the lake, was shot on Fuji Velvia film.

Here’s another shot of the Flint Hills from that day.  This was actually shot from on top of the same hill, but with Teter Rock at my back.  Kansas State University used this shot for a promotional poster which was distributed to high schools to recruit students to their Agronomy department.