Another American Adventure: cactus bloom

Monday, August 20, 2012

cactus bloom - UPDATE

Looking up from my yoga this morning I noticed that the cactus was blooming! It only happens for a short time in the morning, then it closes up again.

This is the cactus plant, in perspective. Photo was taken around noon, long after the blooms had closed up ...

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AnonymousAugust 30, 2012 at 8:06 AM
Looks cool. And by the way Happy Birthda. sinjun
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beth cioffolettiSeptember 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Hey Sinjun - so good to see you here! Happy Belated Birthday to you too! Hope all is well.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.