A Holy Relic?
A stream sculpted boulder?
or
An entity guarding the parched arroyo?

This photo was taken by a Kiev 60 medium format film camera and МИР - 26В 3.5/45mm lens with a CPL 82mm filter using Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized with Photoshop.