Hiking about looking for bright cactus and wildflower blooms. The telltale bright pinks, reds, blues, yellow and orange spread out over large expanses in this one spot in the Mojave Desert. Suddenly, the stark contrast of a white rock slab and a larger dead snag next to the spikey Yucca cactus attracted notice. It blocked our path, so we had to stop and pay our respects to what was.

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