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07 May 2006: This photo of a cactus flower bud was taken at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. I still find it amazing that such a dangerous plant with all of those thorny needles can produce such beautiful buds and tissue paper-like blooms! My new gallery of photos taken in AZ, NM, and TX has been uploaded to my Smugmug galleries. Click on the photo to visit my gallery of The Southwest which will continue to grow this week.