Stressed Cactus All Painted Up

Taken In Arizona at the Desert Museum.
We have taken this image to many nurseries to try to find one that was red like this.
To our surprise, we were told that cacti are only red like this when they are stressed.
I have used the Topaz Filter Simplify with a painting setting that I tweaked from their basic painting set of filters.

Flore Pleno

Minimal Water self seeding
orange poppy that has been
blooming all summer despite
to lack of water in the yard.

Blues Views

Another beautiful
doorway in Burano.
Walking along the
way back to the Ferry
is a wonderful artistic
view of imaginative
doorways.

Beautiful Doorway

Still in Burano,
the color and imagination
of the homeowners is
truly eye candy!

Advertising artwork

A bit of mystery outside
a mask shop on this island
of Burano outside Venice.
Wonderful lace and masks
for sale here.

Art in Architecture

Amazing Art all along the canals in Venice.
Would it be fun to live across the street from this building?

Traffic in Venice

Things are getting busy
close to the main canal.
All gondolas are full
of people and product.

More from Venice

Church along the waterfront.
This gives new meaning to
going out of your way to daily
services. Beautiful Church
and Bell tower on the main canal.

Clock Tower

There are many wonderful small town along the ferry route.

Each town has a history and stories to tell. I think you could probably spend a week just poking around in these beautiful old Italian towns.

Maybe next trip we will take some time to do that!