Flowers

These are just absolutely beautiful! Click on the image to enlarge.

We had a beautiful “second spring” day today in which the temperature got up to about 78°. Most areas of the country refer this sort of weather as “Indian Summer,” but here it’s second spring. After all, summer here is more like 102° and who wants that after summer is over.

These beautiful flowers opened on my Bishop’s Cap cactus. I also had some flowers open on the Devil’s Tongue. Click on the image to enlarge.

I posted about a hidden hedgehog cactus a few days ago. Verna and I went up to the outback to look at the hidden cactus and found several more flowering cacti up there. I took photos and posted them in the slideshow above. Click on the image to advance to the next of four images.

Obviously, I have to make a project of removing some of the deadwood and trim away other vegetation obscuring the cacti. I hope to be able to return to the outback in the springtime to make another slideshow of the flowers on these cacti.

Arizona experiences a “second spring” in October. The weather is warm and the flowers bloom. Of course, my Bishop’s Cap flowers have been blooming since early spring, all summer long and now again in second spring. Click on the image to enlarge.