Cacti are blooming all over Hollerdom.
Prickly plants yielding fragile flowers.
Like gilded lilies,
in rainbow hues,
seeking sun,
through lethal thorns.
An Easter parade,
in a desert scape,
beauty triumphs in the harshest places.
Cheers & Happy Easter to you~
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The seeking sun is my fave this week. Thanks for another super and colourful post Cindy 🙂
Ahhhh, you are so welcome. Friends like you make it all worthwhile!
Nice one Cindy. Hope your week got off to a good start 🙂
Beautiful!
Danke schoen!
You captured the beauty of this special blooms, Cindy. The colors are so rich and gorgeous!
I haven’t seen any yet here in Texas.
I would love to see the Texas bloom and all of Lady Bird’s wildflowers!
I just came back from a short driving for the wildflower sites, people were taking photos everywhere. And, I was thinking how visionary Mrs. Johnson was.
She was wasn’t she, and I wish I could have goine along on your ride! <3
You’d see me in tears. and I do so often, also thinking her audacity for advocating Civil Rights…
This year bluebonnets came out in the early March, a few weeks early, then cold front came a week ago, it did some damage.
You know something, I almost feel like she is here with both of us now in this conversation. Being driven to tears by a woman wise enough to cull wildflowers all over the state of Texas means to me you know a measure of goodness. And yes, her ethical and humanitarian self was mind boggling and she ran so under the radar, There is a reason why we like each other Amy and I suppose this sort of mysterious connection is it. Happy Easter my friend.
Gorgeous pics for this gorgeous Easter morning. 🙂
Hey Carrie, wonderful to hear from you and Happy Sunday my friend~ <3
Dear Cindy, wishing you a happy easter! Wonderful pictures! Mother Nature is so complex!
Hugs! Veraiconica
She is complex, strong and fragile all at the same time. Just like humans! Happy Easter Veraiconica~
So vibrant & colorful..nature is simply amazing! Happy Easter! 🐰🌷
Nature rocks and so do you! Happy Easter~
These are awesome photos, I love cactus flowers.
Well thank you and I am so glad you do!
What a fabulous rainbow of floral treats, lucky you.
I am in the midst of planting more cacti, seeking different colors blooms! So pleased you enjoyed & cheers~
I generally do not like cactii…at least not in my windows. but, when you put it like this….Wonderful captures!
Laughing, so pleased! <3 The beauty of cacti is most easly seen in the flowers.
Wow, gorgeous cacti blooms! I hear that Death Valley is experiencing a once in a decade bloom – are you going? Looks like you have enough of a show at your door!
A super bloom, yes! I wish I was. I find Death Valley fascinating at anytime, but the super bloom would be phenomonal. I think either Curt or Timothy are going though so we will be able to see their photos.
Exquisite timing! I just had a poem published today titled “Coral Cacti” — I’m going to have to share this link in the comment for it on Facebook. 🙂
Oh, please do and I shall find your poem. This is a synchronistic situation! 😎
Gorgeous cacti. I love when they’re in bloom. Happy Easter!
They are fascinating plants aren’t they, but the bloom makes them unusually beautiful~
Happy Easter ! 🙂
Paste Fericit !!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
https://youtu.be/8ASNriauChY
Regards,
Aliosa.
Paste fericit prietenul meu si va multumesc Aliosa!
Cactus blooms are spectacular and you make them even more so! Happy Easter to you, Cindy!
Awwww, so sweet, thank you Teresa~ <3
Glorious!
Merci beaucoup mon ami Bette~ <3
a dream..fantastic pictures ..thanks for sharing <3
Thank you more for the kind appreciation!
Cindy, it wasn’t until I moved to Southern California that I discovered the flowering of cacti plants. Such beauty is a delight to behold!
Your photos cause me to wonder: Those thorny individuals in our lives must have much inner beauty that we fail to see and appreciate.
A Happy Easter to you and your loved ones <3
Yes, cacti are emblematic for me of people. The presence of discouraging thorns often hides inner beauty just waiting to be recognized. We all have thorns after all, and the vast majority of us have inner beauty too. Sometimes it even balances out! 😉
Marvelous Cindy! in the Peruvian highlands we have similar cacti, but they are not the same so it’s like see another, but familiar, world.
Oh I would so love to see your cacti in the Peruvian highlands! It is on my list. Be well my friend~ <3
Here is one https://www.flickr.com/photos/12149353@N03/16583790961/in/album-72157650858164656/lightbox/ n_n I’d love to travel to see yours : )
Oh my God! It looks so much the same. How incredible is this? No matter where we live on this planet, our similarities are so much greater than our differences. I could never have imagined this growing in the Peruvian highlands. Thank you so much for showing me!
Your pictures are always so beautiful, Cindy. You have a good eye.
Awwww, very kind and most appreciated Michele~ <3
These are gorgeous, Cindy! I’ve never seen the desert in full bloom — thank you for showing me a bit of it. Who knew there were so many lovely Easter dresses on thorny plants?!? Happy Easter!
Even a thorny cactus dresses up for Easter! Happy Easter Debbie~ <3
Happy Easter,Cindy, to you and your loved ones. Huge hugs. These are all so beautiful!
Hugs and all the best to you Belinda!
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Happy Easter my friend & cheers too~
I liked the juxtaposition of cacti with pretty flowers to Christ’s death and gift He gave us of forgiveness. Hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend, Cindy. <3
Spending time with Mom for Easter, oldest daughter here Good Friday all thru Sat. We played Yahtzee and Rummy with my 2 brothers while Mom held her dog on her lap.
Youngest daughter arrived on Easter Sunday and we sat in the sun at Mom's senior living apt. Mom loves watching ducks and geese along the man made lakes here. 🙂
Yes, even the thorns were emblematic to me. It sounds like a wonderful Easter Robin and important time for you and your mom and family. I love the image of your mom in the sun with her family and dog in lap, watching the ducks. <3 <3
Thank you for “joining” us for a few moments in the sunshine, Cindy. 🙂
It was such a happy pleasure. <3
Blooming beautiful! :star: Looking forward to part II!
Hope you’re having the best Easter!
The Easter Bunny better have brought you a basket of treats Resa or I’ll have words with him! 😉
What amazing plants!! Just beautiful!! Happy Easter to you too Cindy, and thanks for sharing these. I really enjoyed this post. ~Rita
I am so glad and grateful that you did, and thank you~
How incredible! Just amazing and something I never see. thank you for this. <3
You deserve the best of anything I can possibly come up with, and you know this is true. <3
How beautiful! You captured the essence of cacti
Ahhh, for you to say this is such an honor. Because it would take you to see “the essence of cacti.” I am so lucky to know people like you and this is God’s honest truth.
The prickly exterior can blossom forth with such vibrant and yet delicate beauty
Just iike us. Happiest Easter to and Jack, Pauline. My heart to both of you~ <3 <3
Oh I don’t think you are ever prickly Cindy!!! Hope you enjoyed Easter we had a lovely family get together in our garden. This is what Jack said about it. https://jacksjottings.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/easter-holiday-is-a-holy-day/
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Gratitude for your thoughtfulness Sharon and cheers to you my friend~
Wunderschöne Kalten ich wünsche dir einen schönen Ostermontag lieber Gruß und Umarmung Gislinde
Vielen dank mein lieber Freund Gislinde und Frohlichen Fruhling! <3 <3
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So appreciative of your thoughtfulness & cheers to you~
alles Gute für dich und noch einen schönen Ostermontag
Sie sind sehr freundlich und Frohlichen Fruhling fur Sie! <3
My California relatives have been telling me about the fabulous wildflower season this year, after the winter rains.
Oscar
Yes, Death Valley is having a super-bloom which I would seriously love to see! SoCal got less precipitation, but it got a bit and it is bringing out the blooms!
The blooming cactus are spectacular, aren’t they? Great photos.
So pleased you enjoyed, and yes blooming cacti are uniquely wonderful!
Wonderful variety of colors and blossoms. More hidden beauty. The one with the purple and green on the stem is amazing. Are those the colors of the main stem or a lighting trick?
It is actually reflection off a stained glass yard ornament, someone referred to it as a psychedelic plant from Mars! 😉
Well, it’s a great effect!
Interesting huh! 😉
Wow, Cindy. These are so — I can’t quite find the right word. Marvelous.
They are unusual aren’t they! My grandfather came from Eastern Europe and was so enraptured by cactus flowers that he planted an amazing garden full of them that won a bunch of awards. I guess a bit of his passion rubbed off on me. 😉
I’d say it did. What a collection. I’ve never seen most of these. Do you live in the desert, Cindy?
We live in a semi-desert region which means we have a bit more water and lots of plant variety, but tons of cacti too~
Pretty to look at, but wouldn’t want to touch them.
Cacti do not invite flower plucking for putting in a vase! Ouch! Smart cacti! 😉
They are beautiful. Those rainbow ones remind me of the Holi festival of colors. 🙂
I had to google that to see what it was. It does look thecacti dusted in pastel chalk doesn’t it, just the people at the festival, but they are really just reflecting some pieces of cut glass,
It looks like the Holler is ready for a party. 🙂
Well the orioles and grosbeaks arrived today and I played mating calls for them, so the party is ON! This is as partied out as we want to get! Laughing….
A beautiful tribute to this special season of rebirth…
Hope you have a wonderful spring Rebecca~ <3
So beautiful!
It’s a different sort of beauty and I am pleased you appreciate it Kendall~ <3
Welcome!
So vibrant– the unexpected side of cactus!! Thanks for posting it!
Thank you more for appreciating them Rhonda & cheers!
What an amazing array and how very beautifu!
The blooms are super beautiful, as if to make up for their rather ho-hum parents!
What beauties you have captured, Cindy! Wow!
Not everyone appreciated cactus blooms, so I am pleased you do!
These are absolutely stunning!
Awww, so thoughtful and so appreciated! Cheers to you~
eine gute Woche wünsche ich
Frohe Woche mein Freund!
wünsche eine gute Restwoche
Just too beautiful for words:)
Awww, so kind and so apprecieated! Thank you~
Beautiful, Cindy. I love how these strange thorny plants bloom. Amazing.
They are strange and amazing! So glad you appreciate this~
Hope you had a lovely Easter too Cindy…beautiful cactus bloom photos…oh how I miss the cactus 🙂
Yes they have a tendency to stick with you! 😉 😉
Now there’s a pun 🙂
<3
I am in awe that such prickly plants produce such beauty!! And the rainbow of color on that one is incredible! Thank you for sharing ❤️
It is a lovely dichotomy isn’t it, both fierce and fragile at the same time~
Splendid! 🙂
<3
Wow!
🙂