Echinocereus mojavensis

It is incredible what rare plants and flowers you have discovered during your travels.
Thank you for showing us these treasures here ...

A beautiful blossom, Ron !

Détail incroyable!
Il y a des moments, Ron!

Wonderful find !
The colors and the shades of that bloom are something to behold !
Superb picture, Ron.

magnifique exemplaire

Such a precious find and excellent composition !

Wunder schöne Aufnahmen!

Quel joli tapis... mais aussi pas très hospitalier, le couleur est ravissante !+++

WOW, what a beautiful close-up; wonderful red colour Ron.
Have a nice weekend.

Happy New Year!

Tolle Blüte

Oh my. What knockouts!!! Simply gorgeous! The richness of that red is out of this world. Perfect contrasting green too, and of course all of the prickles add that much more to the images. Lovely and enviable images, Ron! :)

Thanks for the long comment, it's always a highlight for me to read what you've left for me! :)

Re: edible mushrooms...yeah, better to be safe than sorry. Even morels...we found a bunch, only to discover they were FALSE morels when I looked them up before cooking them. YIPES. We have a bunch of books...enough info to convince me not to take the chance unless I was with someone who's had plenty of success. :)

*waves hello to you and your wife* I am pretty confident we'll meet up in the next year or so. You guys are close enough and we'll be getting our travel trailer sometime soon. So it's something to look forward to. :) That being said, you're completely right about the friends we've made on ipernity who we'll probably never meet and yet, they are our dear friends nonetheless. Happy for us, you and I aren't across the globe so the likelihood of meeting is pretty good! :)

Marvelous reading about the cool things you've seen. The rattlesnakes, the burrowing owls, and the Salton sea itself (what a story that is!). We look forward to adventures of our own, thank you for the added excitement with your tales!

P.S. Oh yeah, and that dork I went out with...lol, I couldn't even believe what a loser he was. MEH!

Brilliant capture and PIPs!

Admired in:
www.ipernity.com/group/tolerance

geweldige cactussen

Exquisite color and capture, Ron!

Today I visited your previous picture:
www.ipernity.com/doc/162835/47937038

A lovely series, and this is a stunner, Ron. Great colours and detail, though the spikes look a little daunting. :-)

exquisite light and superb close up !

Great series of wild cactus flower images, Ron!

This is absolutely stunning!
Such gorgeous light, color and detail !
Perfectly captured!

GORGEOUS FLOWER AND PHOTOGRAPH ! ********

Magnifiques détails....