beauty

I am fairly well sick to death of words as a way of trying to talk about enchantment, spiritual experience, love and inspiration at the moment so figured I would just post some pictures of wild places and cactus flowers and that'd be that. 

View toward the Pacific from the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, last April

Pediocactus peeblesianus subsp. fickeiseniorum at the type locality

Sunset, Bird Sanctuary, southern end of Long Beach Island, July 13th, 2017

Thursday, August 10th, 2017, south Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe NM

October light, Narrowsburg NY, but could be anywhere in October, like Minnesota for example