oops, wrong day. This post was edited by joan_mn on Wed, Jul 24, 13 at 11:32

While hiking last Saturday I passed a lot of prickly pear cactus on the trail as is often the case but this time I noticed that yellow jackets seem to really like the fruit. I mean really like it! There were about 20 of them inside and around the pear. The first photo is what a prickly pear cactus looks like. The second and third photos are a close-up of all the yellow jackets. The fourth pic is what the inside of the fruit looks like. I went to a seed harvest for our local conservation group a few weeks ago and as a treat one of the docents brought a cleaned prickly pear for each of us to eat. Very interesting. Sweet, but not too sweet. Jodi-

A Christmas decoration we bought in Brazil a few years ago. Feliz Natal to everyone!

Picnicing on daughters shelter last eve. Clouds had moved in about 8:15, but we saw no rain...but this showed us that it apparently was raining somewhere nearby. Couldn't get it all in one pic.