Who Says Friday the 13th is an Unlucky Day?

Coral Rhapsody is featured in a lovely Etsy Treasury. Thank you-oenopia. Plus, I figured out how to post a Treasury-it's already a good day.

 

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Treasury tool supported by the dog house

  

Cacti Love

 Look at the teeth on this Aloe

 Beautiful symmetry and order in form and needles

Notice the beautiful whirling form resembling the eye of a hurricane+ the symmetry of needle placement and color.

 Huge Barrel Cactus with it's needles placed perfectly along splendidly formed ribs.

 Even this seemingly unorganized cactus has a repeated form of lobes coming to a point.

 The lovely Burros Tail-kissed by the morning sun.(I couldn't resist) It's form is a work of art. The lobes repeat over and over-giving organization to it's form.

 This one appears to be lit from within and again the lobes repeat giving a certain symmetry.

 Ummm, this one is interesting,however it's needles are very symmetrical.

 Even cacti have bad hair days, but underneath that bad hair are symmetrical ribs and needles all in a row.

Hitchhiker- This baby is fully equipped to grab hold of passers by for a free ride to the next location. Notice the adult has far less needles and the gradation and symmetry of needles is breathtaking.

 Not all cacti are so inhospitable-the beautiful bloom of a Kalanchoe. Looking at each stem the buds are growing in a perfectly ordered row, blooms open to four perfect petals.

 This cacti has a little "soul patch" and is very orderly and handsome-don't  you think?

This cacti grows in a crazy convoluted form,but look closer there is symmetry in each individual pad and the needles too.

At first glance, a large group of cacti often appear as a chaotic menagerie, but I was struck upon looking closer at the true order and symmetry. In reality there is much order in the cacti world. Form is often very symmetrical and delineated by ribs-needles are given symmetry by placement, color and number. Lobed cacti often repeat their form over and over providing repetition and thus order.

Cacti are truly striking in a grouping with no two just alike, yet somehow at closer inspection all very, very much alike- another wonderful  example of extraordinary amongst the seemingly ordinary.