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Prickly Pear cactus grow with flat surfaces and large thorns in dry areas with poor soil. The flowers are bright orange with interesting centers that look like small eyes which will become the fruit. The fruit is very tasty, but are covered with very small thorns, making them hard to enjoy. Old Hawaiian trick to picking the fruit, "get a empty can, put hole in bottom, put the end of a stick in the hole, put can over fruit and bang the fruit against the inside of can to brake the thorns off, with gloves on, peel pear and enjoy"!

I have always had a thing for color, in my youth it was crayons, chalk and finger paints. My teachers in school would never let me sit by the windows in class, which had views of pastures with cows, birds and flowers, so I'm guessing it was because I was to busy looking at the world of color out those windows, instead of listening. At a young age I was given cameras for gifts, so I clicked lots of photos, which I still have today, many are mostly of family, friends and animals. I bought my first camera in my early 20's, a Konica view finder 35mm, loved that camera, then I graduated to a Yashica with all the different lenses. That camera didn't last long in the jungle of Venezuela, the mold claimed it after 2...