So, there’s a man crawling through the desert.

He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here.
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Rainymood.com + Exile Vilify (From the Game "Portal 2") + Emmy Cicierega's painting of Chell sitting on a companion cube enjoying the rain.

A tree with no leaves is cut, mounted on a simple base, and decorated with a profusion of properly-sized, brightly colored paper leaves.