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This is one of the first images taken with my new camera. This cactus started flowering last week and it is really into it this week. Click on the image to enlarge.

I went scouting around the property today looking for bird nests, new flower buds and anything else spring. I took this photo of some buds developing on a buckhorn cholla cactus alongside the RV drive. Click on the image to enlarge.

Well, not of all time and there have been other beavertail cacti around town with flowers opening, but this is the first on our property to open. Bob transplanted this cactus from the upper part of our lot to the rock and cactus garden by the RV drive last year. It has many more flower buds that we expect to open soon. We’re glad that this cactus decided to have lots of spring flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.

We have been expecting the hedgehog cactus flowers to open just after the first few days of spring. Well, they’re starting to open. The first two were open yesterday and a third one opened today. It looks like another will be opening tomorrow, too. This is a close-up of one of the prettiest open flowers.

We’re still waiting on our beavertail cactus flowers which should start to open soon. Click on the image to enlarge.

Last fall, we bought a sapling orange tree to replace the one that the Javelina destroyed. This one is not in the ground in the “orchard” yet, but it will be as summer approaches. The good news is that it is blooming and may have oranges before we get it transplanted. Click on the image to enlarge.

The springtime cacti are all getting ready to bloom in the desert. I took this photo of an early red-orange prickly pear cactus flower on our way home from visiting Mom. Click on the image to enlarge.