gas up …

… it’s a long, dry road to Denio Junction, Nevada, from the eastern terminus of Route 140.

half a devil?

… a well-tagged, abandoned bar at Coyote Point Road and Route 140 east of Denio Junction in the Nevada outback.

aimless …

… roaming without destination through the high desert of south-central Oregon.

the outback …

… of northern Nevada — a hundred miles of dirt road south of Elko.

origami …

… at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.

abandoned …

… a well-tagged former gas station along Interstate 80 in Table Rock, Wyoming.

a bridge …

… I decided not to drive across because research argued it was more than a century old.

petals …

… of a blossom at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.

the state flower …

… of Wyoming, insists Google. This specimen sits on the Nevada-Oregon border along Route 140 near Antelope Butte.

and another …

… from the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.

inside …

… one of Nancy Holt’s 18-foot-long, 9-foot-diameter, 22-ton Sun Tunnels near Lucin, Utah.

turn here …

In the Nevada outback, some driveways are really long and anonymous. Hence the flagging, it seems.

rising …

… a gathering storm along Route 93 south of Wells, Nevada.

again …

… at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.

yet another …

… blossom at the Portland Rose Garden in Oregon.

remnant …

an abandoned stone cabin in the Nevada outback near Route 140 west of Denio Junction.

the outlier …

… a chunk of volcanic rock sitting in a playa off Route 140 west of Denio Junction, Nevada.

a hard day’s drive …

… to the mountains off Route 395 in south-central Oregon.

the middle of nowhere …

… along old Route 228  in north-central Nevada south of Elko.

by any other name …

… at the Portland Rose Garden in Oregon.

contorted …

… bark on a tree west of Burns, Oregon.