Tuesday, April 19, 2022

flowering cactus


It's always good when these come into flower: surprising, delicate nopales opuntia - or prickly pear - flowers.  And yes, I could pick and cook the nopales, if it weren't for the fact that the "prickly" part of the name is there for a reason.  I brushed up against it a few weeks ago, and had a whole lot of tiny little spines enter my hand, one of which became decidedly uncomfortable, so I'm wary of it.  I suspect that it will have to go, when our terrace gets renovated.

In other wildlife news, there are some very noisy coyote yaps outside; there's a Great Horned Owl hooting, and not a squeak at the AirBnB.  That's how I like it.

 

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