Pretty in Pink…

I spotted these beauties at the Estrella Mountain Community College on my way  home from Tracy and Bill’s the other day.  Just had to stop.

The cactus pads have such a lovely blue hue to them.

Look at all the buds…can’t imagine how lovely it’s going to be when they all open. 

Quotes:

“The very pink of perfection.”  Oliver Goldsmith

“Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is the one who is selected for each dance”  Alfred Carl Hottes

“Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath;

Softly and still it grows and grows,

Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.” 

Susan Coolidge