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First, I really enjoy the prickly pear cacti in my neighborhood – that is, as long as I don’t fall into a patch. Their paddle-shaped stems (the thorns are the leaves) often show up heart-shaped, and in season bear beautiful flowers which become the pear. After all our rains, I can hardly wait to see what the trails nearby have to offer.
Thoughts: Fraggie suggested a weekly post on the monthly subject. I will give it a shot for every Monday. That I think I can do without feeling depressed about my project and without feeling pressure from lack of time. My workday yesterday was out of the house at 8:00 a.m. and home at 7:30 p.m. I think you can see why time is not always available!
Cheers!
The Glass Aerie 
🙂 They are a great shape, but ouchy!
Ouchy, indeed! These are really obvious thorns – but others are really soft looking, and if you rub up against them, you are very unhappy.
Very nice!! Here in Mexico those cacti are called “nopales”, and the pears are called “tunas”, so a pear would be a tuna, like the name of the fish 😊👌🏽✨✨
Thanks, Eduardo. If I were really hungry, I could eat the whole cactus! I’ve had nopales mixed in with scrambled eggs, and the pears, too. Tuna, eh? I like that word!
So good!! Here we eat nopales also with eggs, or in salad, combined with tomato and onion slices, and of course with some green chile!! 😊😊