Monday, May 21, 2012

parley view parsnip... cactus

My Monday post about what is happening around my home.
Blooming cactus.


This lovely cactus is Echinposis Oxygona or Easter Lily Cactus.

I can see where the name comes from but I would like something more fun and less normal.
 Pink Cloud Floating Over Prickly Reality or something like that.


Isn't it lovely ?
Very large blooms, bursting from a very small cylinder shaped clumping cactus.
What beautiful delicate paper thin, soft pink tinted white petals.
They only bloom for a few days and then we have to wait for next May.

I don't remember this beautiful cactus name. 

It also sends up a very tall bloom spike that towers over a very smallish cactus.

It is so red ! 

Such a saturated red that it is very hard to take a photo of the flower.
Outstanding !
I don't know why but the color always washes out when I post with Picasa.
On my computer this is so searing bright red like the real bloom but somehow Picasa dulls the color, not sure why ?
I might have to go back to iPhoto.

The sun and moon have been in the news so much lately, that I though I would post a photo I took of the moon from a week ago.
With my little point and click I can never get a really good photo of the moon but I rather like this one.

and just to start the week off right
The Square Ones say woof and yert !

blooming. . . parsnip
music. . . 10 Mile Stereo,  Bloom
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11 comments:

  1. The amount of colour in a desert plant always surprises me!

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    1. Yes, the Sonoran Desert is very green and filled with color especially the spring.
      Many people are surprised.

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  2. They are GORGEOUS!
    Growing up here, I never appreciated the beauty of the blooming desert. Thankfully, I have come to marvel at it (only took me about 35 years).

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    1. I miss my gardens when I live in Laguna Beach, lush and tropical but when you live here (I grew up and went to school in Tucson) the color and plants are amazing.

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  3. i love the blooms but you saved the best for last, aren't they adorable sitting there so sweet and innocent! love those square boys!

    smiles, bee
    xoxoxoxooxox

    gudboygetchickenstripnowyesyert!

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    1. Yes, they want you to think they are innocent and very sweet but I know better !

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  4. i think i should go back to cactus as my southern garden doesn't appreciate my beneficent neglect as it should, sugar! ;~) love your pictures and those sweet pups! xoxoxoo

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    1. Thank you so much. I'm Not sure what one plants in a Southern Garden ? besides Magnolia trees.

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  5. Wow, the pink one in particular is absolutely spectacular!

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  6. As beautiful as a rose I think some times.

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  7. The flowers on your cacti take my breath away. We have a few with pale yellow flowers.

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