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Along the old road into Cedar Wash grow a few of these bright-green plants

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4408-pinto-mountain.jpg I reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsI cross the Wilderness boundary (no mechanized travel allowed on this side of it) and turn left to fetch my bicycle nearbyI reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsI cross the Wilderness boundary (no mechanized travel allowed on this side of it) and turn left to fetch my bicycle nearbyI reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsI cross the Wilderness boundary (no mechanized travel allowed on this side of it) and turn left to fetch my bicycle nearbyI reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsI cross the Wilderness boundary (no mechanized travel allowed on this side of it) and turn left to fetch my bicycle nearbyI reach the old closed road leading out of Cedar Wash, marked by rocks that were perhaps placed there 100 years agoThumbnailsI cross the Wilderness boundary (no mechanized travel allowed on this side of it) and turn left to fetch my bicycle nearby

The bright-green foliage and vivid yellow flowers seem out of place in the muted tan of the Mojave Desert.