Cool cactus close-up

Thought this was pretty neat looking...just a close-up, but still..

Cactus is very cool and interesting.

Nice picture beachgirl. Sometimes they even remind you of someone if you look close enough.


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Blossom shot

One day we drove out to the abandoned oxny mine at El Marmol. This blossom atop a cactus was about a foot wide and over two feet in height, which you wouldn't know from looking just at the photo. It was so amazing I had to jump out of the car and take this shot. By the way the mine is amazing with huge slabs of onyx in gorgeous colors just "lying" around. No sign that we saw of any of the housing...apparently when the mine was really active there were over 1000 people working/living around there. Woke up the next morning with a flat. Good thing we were at a hotel on the way north literally directly across the street from a lantera, so the repair was a breeze, instead of sweating it out with a blowout on the Baja road with no place to stop and semis around the bend

here are two shots of the same CARDON that are some of my favorite fotos. their colors seem to jump right out at my soul and for whatever reason, i REALLY like them.....

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cardon - different shades of green



Nena

Cool shot of big cactus far away!

Taken this past March on the day of the San Felipe 250, there are quite a few of these cactus in our desert.

My very favorite cactus



Once it was pulled out of my foot.

Not good desert shoes.

Diane

...I remember my first hard lesson with cactus... wearing sandals I left the firelight to p*** and promptly put my toe into a cactus...it hurt, so I reached down to pull out the spines, and now had cactus in my fingers...this hurt so I brought my finger up to my mouth to pull them out with my teeth...

maybe ten seconds had passed...
...and I had spines in my toes, my fingers, and my lips...
what could I do but laugh and sheepishly return to the firelight... and tweezers

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Originally posted by standingwave ...I remember my first hard lesson with cactus... wearing sandals I left the firelight to p*** and promptly put my toe into a cactus...it hurt, so I reached down to pull out the spines, and now had cactus in my fingers...this hurt so I brought my finger up to my mouth to pull them out with my teeth... maybe ten seconds had passed... ...and I had spines in my toes, my fingers, and my lips... what could I do but laugh and sheepishly return to the firelight... and tweezers

Too bad no one had a camera.

As John got the pliers, he just kept growling about why the he)) was I wearing my Birks and it could have just as well been a snake.

This is what kept me from watching where I was walking when the cactus found me.



Beachgirl, isn't it fun once you can post pictures?

Flowering Barrel Cactus

The orange glow behind the cactus is the suns reflection on the water behind it



There are some beautiful images on this thread!

from the top

sideways

Mossy

I'll bite:

Love these closeups ... nice thread.... great images. Here's my contribution.
Bob H






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On a roll:

Who started this???

From Cacti Mundo in San Jose

MY FAVORITE CACTUS PIX

this happen in our way to PALOMAR CANYON
Sometimes, cactus attack back...

Now THIS is a cactus!

Made by Mrs. BigMike for the Golf Tourney

cactus

At La Ribera's botanical gardens

Big thorns

Another one from the Botanical gardens

"Teapot" cactus...VERY RARE

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Originally posted by CasaManzana

Thanks Skipjack and Nena.

Here's another Agave.

Oh, I found some more.... Bob H





Not a close-up, but just had to post this beautiful cactus.