We’re in Palm Desert this weekend to visit with our kids and the grandson. Today, they brought the baby and had dinner with us here in the RV Park.
I took this image of Jerry while his daddy was holding him up and making him laugh. He is just the cutest thing! Click on the image to enlarge.
Most of the Prickly Pear cacti in the neighborhood are in bloom. This cactus is along the road where we take our after dinner walk with the dogs. It had several flowers open already this season and this is one of two that were open this afternoon. Click on the image to enlarge.
This is a throwback to last month in California when we were visiting with the new Baby Jerry. Verna was holding him and he put his little hands to give her a little hug.
We will be out there by next weekend for another visit. We will be a week late visiting this time since the kids (baby’s parents) had to take the other grandparents out to LAX for their vacation trip down to Cancun this weekend.
More to come later – click on the image to enlarge.
The cactus buds that I posted about last week are fully open today and they are a very hot pink, indeed. The photos at the top and above left were taken just after noon while the last panel was taken this evening as the flowers have begun to close. We know that cactus flowers don’t last long, so we enjoy them while they’re here. Click on any the images to enlarge to full size.
Verna and I went down to the touristy part of town to look in one of her favorite shops this afternoon while we were waiting for the groomer to finish with the dogs. We have known for some time that this fence had been planted for the individual ocotillo canes to take root and eventually do what is seen in the photo above. Click on the image to enlarge.
We thought about doing something like this in our rock and cactus garden with a couple of ocotillos that our neighbor gave us after clearing a lot for one of his construction jobs, but those are also in bloom where we stuck them in the back. I guess we’ll let them stay where they are for the time being.
Better get used to seeing beautiful cactus flowers, because it is the season for it. This is a flower that opened today o the Lawyer’s Tongue Cactus on the west side of our yard along the fence. We planted this cactus from a fallen pad we found in a park in town, and it has done extremely well since it was in a pot in the patio to (now) on the west side in the ground.
I counted over fifty flower buds on this cactus – there were only nine last year – and I expect to have most of them open and to get them imaged in the camera. Click on the image to enlarge.
