The ghost town of Rhyolite is just outside of Death Valley National Park. We found this rusting sign on the desert floor there -- an appropriate symbol for a place that gets less than two inches of rain a year. When visiting abandoned places, always look beyond the ruins themselves. Search for discarded things of symbolic value that may be help you tell your story. This sign certainly did. I moved my camera down low to partially obscure the sign with a bare desert plant. There is not much nourishment here for vegetation, either.