Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear Cactus

Prickly pear cactus,
Yellow blossoms in the wild.
Beauty, shelter, food.

Haiku by Juan Olivarez

7 thoughts on “Prickly Pear”

Julianna, so lovely! beautiful depth in the open flower and the curves of the cladodes. pastels?

paintandsimple says:

October 16, 2013 at 3:15 pm

I did this painting in pastels on sanded paper. It is 7″x5″

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gorgeous Julianna! loved the black-eyed Susan’s as well…my mom named me after that flower, as my hair and eyes were so dark when I was born!! Hope all is well, S

paintandsimple says:

October 16, 2013 at 3:16 pm

I love that story! Thanks for sharing, I will never look at a black eyed Susan without thinking about you.

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Love it!…makes me want to make mesquite pancakes with prickly pear syrup for dinner!

lovely work !

Great! I love the cactus flower and it is captured so well.

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