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I pause in the shade of a juniper with its juniper berries at the pass in the New York Mountains

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6995-juniper-spring-wash.jpg The wash comes to an end; remnants of an old road rise the final few feet up to a pass in the New York MountainsThumbnailsMy text message doesn't want to be sent after I compose it, so I climb up the adjacent hill for better reception; away it goesThe wash comes to an end; remnants of an old road rise the final few feet up to a pass in the New York MountainsThumbnailsMy text message doesn't want to be sent after I compose it, so I climb up the adjacent hill for better reception; away it goesThe wash comes to an end; remnants of an old road rise the final few feet up to a pass in the New York MountainsThumbnailsMy text message doesn't want to be sent after I compose it, so I climb up the adjacent hill for better reception; away it goesThe wash comes to an end; remnants of an old road rise the final few feet up to a pass in the New York MountainsThumbnailsMy text message doesn't want to be sent after I compose it, so I climb up the adjacent hill for better reception; away it goesThe wash comes to an end; remnants of an old road rise the final few feet up to a pass in the New York MountainsThumbnailsMy text message doesn't want to be sent after I compose it, so I climb up the adjacent hill for better reception; away it goes

It's nice to retreat from the hot sun for a few minutes. I rest briefly, eat an energy bar, suck back some water, and try my cell phone. It works! So I compose a text message.