some flowers and such too

[Ranch Mom]

Faster Horses looks like you and I been thinkin bout the same things lol
Great minds think (take pictures) alike I guess. :wink: :roll:

Glad to find these buggers on my little walk, my future plum jelly :wink:

Just south of our place, this is a pretty little spot, too bad its Refuge :roll:

Some wild roses

I liked the rain in the background of this one. Almost had a rainbow for the contest.

 

[Faster horses]

Your cactus flower has a prettier center than mine did. :wink:

Nice waterfall. Where does it come from? LaCreek?
Seriously, where does it originate?

The picture of the big soapweed is cool. Imagine what it would have
been with a rainbow in it. Almost makes me want to add a photo
catagory called "Soapweeds."

Thanks for sharing those great photos.

I think that waterfall is really neat. I'd like to see that in
person sometime.

 

[Ranch Mom]

I thought yours had the nicer center. :wink: The prettiest cactus blooms I ever saw were cascading down a badland wall near Norris where my folks hay. They were big and lots of em and I had no camera, by the time I came back by with the camera, the blooms had passed, still think every year I should go back to get a pic. :cry2:

That little waterfall is on Elm Creek and is about 100 yards from our fenceline. it is part of Lacreek refege.

We would love to have you or any of our "ranchers" friends visit, but the waterfallisnt great like ones in the black hills its probably a 10 foot drop maximum. :wink: Maybe combined with a "working tour" at haystacking time... hmm we could get our work done, and give you all an experience. lol

I love soapweed (the plant, nothing against the man but I love k_ranch :shock: :wink: ) and was told the yucca plant came very near to being the south dakota state flower back in the day. Some professor of mine or maybe in high school, south dakota history maybe :???: I could have fun with that category, but I wonder if enough people would have access to them for a contest. :???: probably so, maybe have to try it :lol:

I better get back away from this puter for the day I waste more time. poor k_ranch on his big day and I been playin on the puter most of it. I did at least get showered, dressed and dishes done. lol

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Great pictures Ranch Mom, those cactus blooms are beautiful! and the Soapweed (Yucca as we call it) is huge. Ours don't ever get that big. I never knew until Soapweed(the man) said that cows would eat the pods. All I ever knew they were good for was target practice.......3 older brothers usta chunk em at me when I was little. LOL them thangs are hard before they bust open and loose the seeds.

 

[nr]

Just wondering if that is the type of cactus you can eat? I saw a recipe
once that had cactus as an ingredient and was thinking you'd have to
be desperately hungry to try to peel one. They do make a striking picture- delicate flower next to sharp thorns.

 

[Faster horses]

The only times I ever heard of anything eating prickly pear cactus was in the stories the old-timers told of burning the stickers off and cutting them
so the cows would have something to eat.

I don't think cactus would taste very good. But then again, you never
know. Somepeople eat rattlesnake.

That'd make quite a meal. Rattlesnake entree with cactus for dessert. :shock: