Cacti

Spend a few days driving around the American Southwest and you’ll run into a few of these dudes.

Hopefully not literally – that’ll leave a mark.

They grow all over the place, even in some of the most inhospitable locations.

But these are all parts of decorative landscaping, which is also a very US Southwest sort of thing.

I don’t know if it’s a spring thing or year-round, but most of these seem to have what pass for flowers and/or fruit in the thick and thorny plant world.

Is part of this edible? Or, more practically, fermentable? Probably? Maybe if/when we find the Forever Home (R) in the high desert we can experiment with that.

Okay, I suspect this isn’t quite a “cactus” – I think it’s probably some sort of yucca tree or plant?

Again, not an expert at all. (And it shows!)

Or some sort of palm tree. Whatever, it’s life in a very dry, barren, hostile place.

Like Dr. Ian Malcolm says in “Jurassic Park,” somehow life finds a way.