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Seasonal streams have done a good job of polishing this rock bed in lower Bull Canyon, Mojave National Preserve

07919-bull-canyon.jpg Burned desert willow (chilopsis linearis) in Bull Canyon wash, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI finally start to enter the foot of the Granite Mountains in Bull CanyonBurned desert willow (chilopsis linearis) in Bull Canyon wash, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI finally start to enter the foot of the Granite Mountains in Bull CanyonBurned desert willow (chilopsis linearis) in Bull Canyon wash, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI finally start to enter the foot of the Granite Mountains in Bull CanyonBurned desert willow (chilopsis linearis) in Bull Canyon wash, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI finally start to enter the foot of the Granite Mountains in Bull CanyonBurned desert willow (chilopsis linearis) in Bull Canyon wash, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI finally start to enter the foot of the Granite Mountains in Bull Canyon

It may be dry right now, but this place must get pretty wet after a thunderstorm... I take note of the trees (probably junipers and pinon pines) growing on the high hill in the distance.