1.   A single pale, bright patch, from which two black skeletons leered down at him.

2.   Creosote bushes are black skeletons, barrel cactuses are bronzed by the heat, and huge prickly pears are reduced to heaps of copper-colored pads.

3.   Now it was just black skeletons and resin-coated sand.

4.   Now only the black skeletons of manzanita and chamise chaparral dot a landscape painted in gray.

5.   The landscape included black skeletons of pine trees, soot-covered wedding china and a charred saguaro cactus sculpture made of beer and pop cans.