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Two more Arizona shots this evening. This Cactus Wren and a Greater Roadrunner.
White Tank Mountain Regional Park. Maricopa County, Arizona.
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An upside down umbrella lined on both sides with agapanthus dried heads. Seen at the Melbourne Flower Show.
Cactus Garden, Huntington Gardens, San Marino, California. Processed with Lightroom, Photoshop, and Topaz filters.
Two Cactus Wrens (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) perch on a prickly pear cactus in Arizona. The one on the left is an adult and the bird on the right is a juvenile. Did you know Cactus Wrens are the state bird of Arizona?
Taken at Cave Creek Ranch, Portal, AZ.
These come in lots of shades of red, as seen in Desert Meadows Park, Green Valley, Arizona, USA
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Enjoy your day, one of two photos taken at Allan Gardens Conservatory in Toronto.
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Sometimes I have been out looking for birds when the light just gets absolutely amazing and there are no birds to be found. The situation becomes a race to find any subject to try to take advantage of the light and all too often that perfect light is so short lived that it’s gone before a subject can be located. I thought that was going to be the case with this Cactus Wren from our recent Arizona trip. The sun had been blocked by some clouds as it was getting close to the horizon and I didn’t think we would get much color. Just a few minutes before sunset, however, the sun went across a little gap in the clouds and it was absolutely glorious. To my surprise this Cactus Wren wasn’t too far away and it actually stayed on its perch while I moved around to get some of that sunset color in the background. That NEVER happens!!!
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Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus
My cactus plant of many years had not previously flowered before this summer. The flower was rather spectacular at approximately 13 cm (5 inches) in diameter
Agave is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States. Some agave species are also native to tropical areas of South America. The plants are perennial, but each rosette flowers once and then dies (see semelparity). Some species are known by the name "century plant". Source Wikipedia.
A prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) about to bloom at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
the curved spines of my Silken Pincushion cactus - Mammillaria bombycina.
Olympus E-M5 / Mir 1V(B) 37mm f2.8 with extension tube
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