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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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Cactus Garden, Huntington Gardens, San Marino, California. Processed with Lightroom, Photoshop, and Topaz filters.

I found another cactus bloom color that delights me in Desert Meadows Park, Green Valley, Arizona, USA

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Lanzarote

Even cactus bears flowers.

It won't prick you unless you touch it.🌵

So does life is!

Don't poke it to poke you back.

-Window Panes

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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.

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'Green World 5' is a macro photo of a succulent plant. it is a part of the 'Green World series.

Isla del Pescado, Bolívia

Cactus with a halo of flower's

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Wide-open, indoors, light from the window. As close as I can go with this lens.

It was growing in the grass ... and hard to notice ... until I stepped on it , ouch sorry :)

Theodore Roosevelt National Park , North Dakota

seen in the Explore Alpha DSLR-A350 content

photo has been featured on the blog of the group The Sunshine Group

Jardí Riells

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

Los Angeles, California

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Cactus Garden

Ganna Walska Lotusland

Montecito, California

Normally the cacti at Lotusland bloom in wintertime, but they were spectacular in early May this year. No one seems to knows why.

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Rural Monterey County

Cactus blooming with yellow flowers

Image won 2nd place in the St. Louis Camera Club's Nature image contest on May 12, 2016.

A flowering, brain cactus Stenocactus multicostatus at the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Tucson, Arizona, Native to Mexico.

is now the Thanksgiving Cactus...

This plant is over 20+ years old and has lived in the same long 'window box' pot all these years... and it never fails to send up the most beautiful flowers multiple times a year!

There is usually one red flower that blooms... I haven't seen it yet!

Macro

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I have only had one other cactus I wasn't sure I would be able to keep it alive in this northern hemisphere but it seems to be ok and it grew some flowers.

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Focus stacked in Photoshop.

Tucson Mountain Park, Pima County, Arizona

I was photographing these teddy bear cholla on the west side of Tucson Mountain in the morning shade, just below Gates Pass, when I was suprised by the rising sun popping over the ridge. I quickly reframed for a starburst and the glow of the sun on the cactus needles.

I am always amazed at the beautiful blooms that spring from such a menacing plant. I suppose it's nature's way of balancing.