Chipmunk on Prickly Pear Cactus — Image by kenne
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Chipmonk On Prickly Pear Cactus 1 comment
Watch him long enough
all our tools, our gloves, our careful distance,
A better citizen of this place
Cactus Blossoms 2 comments
Prickly Pear Cactus Yellow Blossoms are Everywhere — Images by kenne
Texas has its yellow rose.
The Arizona desert has its yellow cactus blossoms.
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Cactus Blossoms Are Everywhere This Spring 1 comment
Cactus Blossoms Are Everywhere This Spring — Images by kenne
Prickly pear cactus
Yellow, the color of spring
Lights up the desert.
— kenne
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Mule Deer Eating Prickly Pear Cactus 1 comment
Mule Deer in Sabino Canyon (November 8, 2022) —- Images by kenne
On the SCVN Bird and Plant walk (November 8, 2022), we spotted a mule deer eating what appeared to be prickly pear pads.
We are aware that deer will eat the fruit but not the pads. You can tell from these photos that she seems to enjoy the chew.
However, she began to sneeze and use her left hind hoof to scratch her head — wonder why.
— kenne
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Purple Cactus — Image by kenne
“I’m Not Like The Others!”
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Prickly Pear Cactus Blossom — Image by kenne
cactus flowers
are in many colors
in May
yellow is the
most common
— kenne
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Prickly Pear Blossom Abstract 2 comments
Prickly Pear Blossom — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Prickly Pear Blossom
Most all nature is ad lib
Theme variations.
— kenne
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Here We Go Round The Prickly Pear 1 comment
Prickly Pear — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
— from The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
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Love Should Manifest Itself . . . 2 comments
Yellow Cactus Blossoms — Tiled Gallery by kenne
Suffering occurs when we want
other people to love us in the way
that we imagine we want to be loved,
and not in the way that love should manifest itself
— free and untrammeled,
guiding us with its force and driving us on.
— Paulo Coelho
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Prickly Pear Art — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Did you ever
trip and fall
on a cactus?
Try hiking
Blackett’s Ridge
in the light of
a full moon.
— kenne
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Southwest Window — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Colors give life
to that without
motion —
but what is existence
without motion,
locked in time
forever!
— kenne
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My Neighborhood 2 comments
My Neighborhood — Computer Painting by kenne
Love your neighbor as yourself,
but don’t take down the fence.
— Carl Sandburg
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Prickly Pear Blossom — Painting by kenne
“. . . the truth is that as soon as you start walking,
all that noise, all those rumours, fade out.
What’s new? Nothing:
the calm eternity of things, endlessly renewed.”
— Frédéric Gros
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Penis Blossom — Grunge Art by kenne
“So beautiful of course compared
with what a man looks like
with his two bags full
and his other thing
hanging down out of him
or sticking up at you like a hatrack
no wonder they hide it with a cabbageleaf.”
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
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Prickly Pear — Image by kenne
This unusual growth on a prickly pear pad caught our attention while hiking in Sabino Canyon yesterday.
I tried researching it online and was not able determine the nature of this growth. Need to seek out a botanist for an explanation.
kenne
