Every year, on
this blog, I record and report my first returned bluebird sighting in early
spring. I have been recording the
arrival dates of the bluebirds in my personal journals since the mid-1990’s. This yearly exercise is frivolous but quietly
satisfying at the same time.
This blog is not
about bluebirds.
I wrote that blog
on March 9 of this year.
In more recent
years, I have been documenting the yearly flourish of ball cactus blooming on
the prairie surrounding my house. They
are known locally as pincushion cactus.
More importantly, the blossoms of the ball cactus are easily the
brightest flowers to bloom on our prairie.
They glow like
electrified beacons.
When you first
see one of the glowing cacti, your instinct is to look for an attached extension
cord so you can follow the cord back to where it is plugged into a receptacle
providing power for making the blossom so vivid.
Well, the time
has come.
Beacons are
beginning to glow across the prairie.
Posted is a
photograph of a ball cactus on display this year.
—Mitchell Hegman
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