Bill & Gabe's Excellent Adventure 1

Gabe in the Badlands

Two flattops: Gabe at Devil's Tower,

Glacier Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road, when the fog lifted for a few minutes

Gabe looks over the valley

Sunset over South Dakota.

I took this picture intending to send it to The Straight Dope with the question: "If the Sun is 93 million miles away and therefore its light arrives in essentially parallel rays, how come these beams aren't parallel?" Anybody have an answer?