Another favorite image is this one of Mule Ear Peaks from Big Bend Vistas. As I said there,
“Part of the mystique of Big Bend National Park comes from the bizarre shapes that igneous rocks can assume, shapes that are not found anywhere else in Texas. The Mule Ear Peaks are two rhyolite dikes that have eroded into the shapes of mule ears. The dikes were intruded into Bee Mountain Basalt, which forms the ridge in front, and gray Chisos tuffs seen between the peaks and at the bottom of the photograph.
Army Air Corps pilots stationed in the park used to enjoy flying between the peaks in the 1930s.”
Photographed from Mile 17.5 on the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive in Big Bend National Park.
