As we move from Spring to Summer in Utah, unpredictable weather seems to be the norm. Within the last two weeks we saw mid 90’s that then dropped down to the upper 30’s and a little bit of everything in between. We took a walk one morning on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail after one such drastic temperature drop with snow visible on Ben Lomond down to under 7,500′ and cactus blooming below on the trail.

A little hard to see but the poor bee in the 4th photo got frozen in place inside the cactus bloom (top bloom in the photo.)

About two years ago I posted that one of our cactus plants bloomed after eight years. Well, it skipped a year and here it is again with one solitary bloom at 10 years old. The plant is surprisingly robust – every Spring we find it laying flat on the ground after getting flattened by the packed snow and deer wandering through our yard but it pops back up after a couple of weeks of sun!