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2024-05-10 20:07:09

#CactusFlowers
Apparently it’s National #Cactus Day. Here are two prickly pear flowers. June 2017

Closeup photo of a yellow prickly pear cactus flower. Taken in the Devils Backbone natural area in Larimer County, CO. The park is named that because of its geological formation, a ridge of highly eroded sandstone sticking up from the surrounding high desert hills, giving the appearance of a string of vertebrae extending about a half mile just before you reach the Big Thompson Canyon that runs up the foothills from Loveland to Estes Park. June 2017
Closeup photo of a yellow prickly pear cactus flower. Taken in the Devils Backbone natural area in Larimer County, CO. The flower is flanked on either side by the paddle shaped cactus body, with spikes poking out. The park is named that because of its geological formation, a ridge of highly eroded sandstone sticking up from the surrounding high desert hills, giving the appearance of a string of vertebrae extending about a half mile just before you reach the Big Thompson Canyon that runs up the …