I took these pictures a couple of weeks ago. All the flowers are gone from the cactus now and the fruit are starting to ripen. If I have the time, and the javelina don't get them all, I will make some prickly pear jam this year from the prickly pear fruit. :)
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| Cholla |
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| Prickly Pear |
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I had a little fun editing this next one. I have been practicing the spot color technique in
Pixlr. I lightened the desaturate overlay to 75%.
Linking up with Madge for
Weekly Top Shot Jan for
Straight Out Of the Camera Sunday and Nancy for
Your Sunday Best.
14 comments:
they're gorgeous! and i very much like your treatment on the last shot.
How beautiful they were -- so glad you took some photos before they disappeared. :)
Isn't it amazing that plants covered with thorns have such beautiful flowers!
There is just no bloom as beautiful as a cactus bloom. Such a strange thing to have such beauty come from such a rather homely plant. Hmmm...a lesson to be learned there, me thinks! :O
I've hard prickly pear is pretty good? Hey, come over to my site and enter my 1 year blogversary giveaway! :)
How pretty! I have had prickly pear jam before : ) The last shot is cool.
Oh...these are beautiful photos! I can see the similarity between these flowers and the zygo flowers on my two plants. I've done selective coloring in Elements, but I need to check out Pixlr! (Do the javelinas cause any problems for you?)
Just stumbled on your blog from Your Sunday Best and had to say hello from a fellow Arizonan! LOVE LOVE the image of your cacti! But so glad to be up in the White Mountains for now.
Keep cool,
nancy-of the crazy 9
Those are pretty Candy.
beautiful colors and i really like your edit on that last one! cool!
Lovely pictures all. Thanks for sharing!
SO gorgeous! Thank you for sharing on Weekly Top Shot #36!
I want to make some prickly pear jam too this year...in fact, I made a prickly pear chutney when we lived here before that was wonderful! Would you like the recipe?
So pretty! I do love what you did to the last photo.
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