A Seriously Decomposed Car

Today I read a news article online stating that 500 acres practically right next door to where I live burned down yesterday. Luckily, the 500 acres contained nothing much that anybody will miss; the news article says it was just 500 acres of dead grass. But since the fire was right in my neighborhood, and since it was safely extinguished yesterday, I wanted to go look at the burned area. So I drove to the exact intersection that the fire was supposedly nearest to, and looked around . . . but there wasn't a blackened field anywhere in sight, as far as I could see. Did I blink and miss 500 acres? Apparently by being "near" this intersection, what the news article really meant was that it was miles and miles away from the intersection but there was just no other intersection between this one and the fire. I sure do live in the middle of nowhere.

However, while driving around in the middle of nowhere, I did find something else to photograph. I found the most severely decomposed car I've ever seen in my life. I wonder how long a car has to sit by the side of a road before it gets this bad. It looks like it may have been burned at some point.

( The decomposed remains of a Chevrolet Camaro. )