This image, captured in Ndeiya, Kenya, depicts a dry, rural roadside environment under an overcast sky

This image, captured in Ndeiya, Kenya, depicts a dry, rural roadside environment under an overcast sky. The foreground shows a light brown dirt road, sloping gently upward from the lower left to the center right, with visible tire tracks and scattered small rocks. A narrow strip of sparse green vegetation is present at the immediate edge of the road, at the base of a reddish-brown earthen embankment. The embankment rises steeply, approximately 2-3 meters in height, exhibiting distinct horizontal erosion lines and some vertical ruts. Perched atop the embankment, slightly left of the image's vertical center, is a tall, slender, pale brown stalk, identified as an agave plant's bloom stalk, extending vertically towards the sky. Its base is surrounded by a cluster of dried, dark brown, sword-shaped agave leaves. The remainder of the embankment's upper edge is densely covered with dry, bushy, brownish-grey vegetation, characteristic of thorny scrub. In the upper right quadrant of the frame, three thin, dark utility lines are visible against the pale grey, overcast sky. No individuals, animals, or man-made structures other than the road and utility lines are present.