Winter Haystack
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Winter Haystack
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/the Faa Watermark Will Not Appear On Your Final Image.
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It just keeps on changing. Now a yellow skull appears on a cold winter morning. Could space aliens be behind it - or just college students?
Purchasing and protecting a hay supply was critical to a horse-mounted cavalry post such as Fort Collins, Colorado in the 1800's. During these years a farmer showed up at the fort offering to sell a large haystack located a couple miles to the north. The post commander sent out a procurement officer to verify the existence of the haystack, and then paid the farmer in full for his hay. When subsequently trying to bring in the hay, Fort Collins soldiers learned their 'haystack' was really just a large haystack-shaped boulder covered sparingly with hay. The military had been duped, and ever after this boulder would be known as 'Haystack Rock.' Today, Haystack Rock has become a sort of First Amendment billboard as well, painted with ever-changing statements, school slogans, marriage proposals and graffiti. Haystack Rock is easily recognized close by Highway 287, just a few miles north of Laporte, Colorado.
From "Strange, But True, Colorado; Weird Tales of the Wild West" by John Hafnor.
Image copyright 2016 Jon Burch Photography all rights reserved.
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January 14th, 2016
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