The red barrel cactus in my front yard is blooming right now. I just love the colors of these flowers with their subtle tones of pinks, oranges and yellows. The harshness of the desert never ceases to amaze me, but there is so much delicate beauty to be found in the desert as well. These flowers for instance look so delicate and fragile in sharp contrast to the trecherous spines they sit amongst.

The red barrel cactus in my front yard is blooming right now. I just love the colors of these flowers with their subtle tones of pinks, oranges and yellows. The harshness of the desert never ceases to amaze me, but there is so much delicate beauty to be found in the desert as well. These flowers for instance look so delicate and fragile in sharp contrast to the trecherous spines they sit amongst.