I was walking around the yard one afternoon, with camera in hand, to take some pictures of cactus blooms in my wife’s cactus garden. She has some beautiful thorny examples that resemble nothing like what I remember as a kid around here. Generally, when I think of cactus from back in the day, I think of prickly pear. I will admit that prickly pear cactus does bloom, and it can be pretty to look at, but it always reminds me of sad times of the fifties when we were in severe drought around these parts. I was a youngster of I was ...