This is the 16,000th shot through my new camera, looking upward at an interesting outcropping of what I presume is sandstone on a butte north of Bismarck. I had a unique opportunity to photograph this location the day before the landowner put cattle on it (and turned on the electric fence too, I believe).

While this rock formation doesn’t necessarily look all that special, it’s what is hidden on and around it that caught my eye: carvings going back to 1903, and a seventy year old geodetic marker! More on that another time.