Desert Story

This is a render I did a little over 10 years ago that I updated and re-rendered today. I was trying to take a snapshot of a point in time in a desert mini-drama. A discarded or lost canteen lies on the desert floor having spilled it's water. As the water seeps into the sand, a sprout starts growing there. A lizard is scrambling toward the plant to get water or maybe eat the plant--the cycle of life. But how did the canteen get there? What happened to the owner of the canteen? What's going to happen next?