Haystack Rock Volume 7 and Courthouse Butte

and Courthouse Butte

Kristina Gabrielle

shown with some semblance of its features surrounded by the "ring of fire" associated with an annular eclipse

A curtain of fog opens to reveal Rocky Mountain gold in the White River National Forest

The ridge of Mount Rundle is thrust high in the sky in the Canadian Rockies

Haystack Rock Volume 7 and Courthouse ButteThe giant basaltic monolith known as Haystack Rock is an intertidal element on Cannon Beach in Oregon USA. It towers more than 235 feet (72 Meters). Over time erosion has separated it from being an exclusive land mass on the the coast to making it a land mass surrounded by the sea, though it is still accessible at low tide from land. Here, first light of day ignites the stack while freshly wet sand doubles its impact.