Cactus
Did you ever wonder if the pointy end of a cactus plant was actually pointy… or sharp?
Julie, Sharon and I had left Carlsbad Caverns National Park earlier in the day and were on our way to Las Cruses, New Mexico. Idling down the highway at… (well the speed limit was 75 MPH…), anyway there is a beautiful view of the Guadalupe Mountains north of the highway. We found a place that had a great view and pulled over for a photo shoot.
What made the scene so appealing to the passengers was the scrubby vegetation and the barbed wire fence in the foreground of the mountains. This was an authentic southwest setting! We got some great photos.
So, about the cactus… I don’t want to mention who went first, but ‘someone’ mentioned that the cactus looked sharp, and then proceeded to touch the end of the spiny leaf… ‘Ouch!!’ It turns our that the pointy leaf is sharp. After some discussion about how hard you had to touch it… or how softly, the other someone proceeded to touch the end of the spiny leaf… ‘Ouch!!’ Seeing a pattern developing, I avoided the cactus.
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