Cereus Detail, 6.14.19
Tag: cactus
For your Tuesday Afternoon
Cereus Flowers, 6.14.19
There’s Always One (or more!)
So one just decides, “I’ve had it being upright. I’m tired and I want to nap!” Or at least that’s how it looks.
I believe this is some sort of Cereus, but I just don’t know my cacti well enough to say for sure. I’m guessing someone out the can fill me in.
The Recliner, 4.10.18
Happy Valentine’s Day
… and because love isn’t always a smooth ride, but worth even the prickly moments:
Prickly Pear Heart, 5.15.17
Goodnight Flower
Cactus Flower, 10.20.16
From Today’s Walk
Agave, 9.20.16
Goodnight Flower
Opuntia basilaris
Happy Valentine’s Day
Love might not be a constantly smooth road, and it sometimes comes with some little prickly times, but it’s well worth the work, don’t you think?
Cactus Heart, 1.16.15
Amazing Colors
I am fascinated by this particular prickly pear. I’m pretty sure it’s Opuntia violate var. santa rita … or, if you prefer Purple prickly pear. Honest … the purples and pale greens … well … just look!
They are definitely prickly, though. It’s not the sharp needles, but the tiny little things (glochids, perhaps?) that are quite a nuisance. Believe me, they hurt! While I love them, I don’t think I’d grow them.
Opuntia violacea var. santa rita (I-VI)
My Comfort Zone
First Shot: Cactus with Morning Dew, 12.23.14
I am most comfortable with the macro lens. I just love the “Small Of It”, I guess. (I talk a lot to Dan about the “All Of It” when it comes to landscape photography. Yes, I do shoot landscapes, but I find them quite overwhelming much of the time.) I knew I had to “get back on the bike”, as one might say, after yesterday. I went to bed last night feeling rather unsuccessful, and that’s a bad place to be.
Off I went this morning, on one of my little walks. It wasn’t a long one — not quite five miles this time — but I ended up at a favorite house. The home owner has lots of succulents in the front: clearly a water-wise yard! This time of year she decorates her succulents with Christmas ornaments, and I had deliberately walked that way to see what she’d done. Fortunately she was in front, so I could ask if I could roam the yard. She said yes, and I had a wonderful time.
This is just my first shot of the day … no ornaments yet, other than the sparking dew. The plant really glistened in the sunlight.
I came home happy.