Back 40

High Plains Zen

Hay: Weld County, Colorado

shelter in the outback …

… an old outbuilding on the Winecup ranch along the Wilkins-Montello Road in northeastern Nevada.

Window on the West

labor’s end …

… for an old pump that once nudged water out of a dry lake bed into a cattle stock tank in western Nevada.

high winds …

… of more than 60 mph drove dust from this dry lake bed hundreds of feet upward.

rupture …

… instead of rapture in an aspen grove at 7,500 feet in the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.

power …

… provided by an aging Waukesha generator to pump water from well to stock tank in the Nevada outback.

the rock …

… a basalt block that fell from a cliff onto a playa in northern Nevada.

yikes …

… tag art on the side of an abandoned bar in the outback of northern Nevada.

out West …

… road kill = steak.

aging …

… an old stone structure in rural Nevada.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sky

Kill Apollo

Born

spirits, vittles, and gas …

… in Ione, Nevada, “the town that refused to die.” (Population, 41)

no water …

… in a cattle tank next to a dry lake bed along Route 722 east of Fallon, Nevada.

she …

… graces the side of an abandoned bar along Route 140 in very rural Nevada. The legend, apparently by the artist, reads “Jess Mudgett ’20.

claim the throne …

… and presume you have dominion over Nature.

still here …

… Ione, Nevada (population 41), bills itself as “the town that refused to die.”