One green day

The flowers are beautiful... They are bright and colorful. But sometimes you just get tired of colors and want something not as bright... something green, perhaps. And once you go green, you find there are at least 50 shades of green (actually, fifty is underestimation, but who cares).

 

The green can be bold and also kinda bright. Like this thorned leaf. Or can be soft and pleasant, like a color of Prickly Pear. And this color is also the color of these nasty small bugs, who are literally eating the cactus alive. They are draining the cactus blood and look really happy acting as a big gang, attacking the poor Prickly Pear... But this is interesting to watch this gang looking for the best place to bite.

Or green can be fresh as fresh leaf (right, somehow, some leaves look fresh even after days of toasty heat.

And... one more bug who is feeding on the cactus. Even though it looks different (and not as green), I guess it is the relative to small green gang members. But this one looks more serious and dangerous. Contract killer, huh?

Or green can be less pronounced and kind of gray-ish, like another bug I met that morning. This one was a bit shy and refused to pose on the sunny side of the plant. It's OK, I guess, not everyone really likes to be exposed, right?

Or green can be bright as juniper brunch with some (still green-ish) berries hidden between the leaves. Or... I don't have enough words to describe all shades of green I was able to discover during only one hour walk :)

And I was surprised to find a crater in the place where the paperish yellow flowers were attracting bees just a couple days ago. And the grasshopper was waiting for something sitting on the cactus leaf in the shadows... It was, probably, waiting for some rays of sun to warm it up and help jumping as high as a sky...

So many shades of green, so many green shapes. So many leaves, berries and even flowers. Right, some flowers were also green (but, probably, they will turn yellow in a couple of days, who knows... I will try to check it out and report back ;)

Pictures were taken at June 19, 2020.