<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1743&entry_id=1546" title="http://happiegrrrlclimbing.blogspot.com/2007/12/south-side-of-joshua-tree.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://happiegrrrlclimbing.blogspot.com/2007/12/south-side-of-joshua-tree.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;"> Happiegrrrl Climbing</a> wanders into new parts of Joshua Tree National Park and stumbles upon a Cholla forest. I hope she didn’t actually stumble.<br /><br />Nice photos of national park protected cholla, plus barrel cacti and ocotillo too.<br /><br />
Economics
<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1750&entry_id=1553" title="http://www.correntewire.com/obama_stump_speech_strategy_of_conciliation_considered_harmful" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.correntewire.com/obama_stump_speech_strategy_of_conciliation_considered_harmful’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Lambert at Corrente explains it all.</a><br /><br /><br /><br />
Link of the Day
As long as we’re on the Peyote beat, here’s a photo of a Lophophora diffusa in it’s native habitat.<br /><br /><img width="432" hspace="5" height="324" border="2" src="/blog/uploads/misc/Lophophoradiffusa1.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1730&entry_id=1533" title="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Lophophoradiffusa1.jpg" onmouseover="window.status=’http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Lophophoradiffusa1.jpg’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Original (larger) photo</a> on wikimedia commons by <a target="_blank" href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1731&entry_id=1533" title="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kauderwelsch" onmouseover="window.status=’http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kauderwelsch’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Kauderwelsch</a>.<br /><a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1732&entry_id=1533" title="http://lophophora.blogspot.com/2007/10/habitat-photos-lophophora-etc.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://lophophora.blogspot.com/2007/10/habitat-photos-lophophora-etc.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Link with more photos</a> via lophophora blog.<br /><br />
Link of the Day
<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1706&entry_id=1509" title="http://jardinagens.blogspot.com/2007/12/verde-que-te-quero-verde.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://jardinagens.blogspot.com/2007/12/verde-que-te-quero-verde.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">jardinagens</a> has a lovely little succulent garden that looks newly planted. But I don’t read portuguese, so I can’t be sure.<br /><br /><br />
Link of the Day
<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1699&entry_id=1502" title="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/060971.php" onmouseover="window.status=’http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/060971.php’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Giant Gay Flesh-Eating Rats</a><br /><br /><br />
Link of the Day
A youth pastor at <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1689&entry_id=1490" title="http://igniteyouth.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/roots/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://igniteyouth.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/roots/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">The Ignition</a> gets some cactus.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I recently visited a friend of mine who lives (in) Temecula… He gave me some cacti…. He simply chopped off pieces of these different plants with a machete and told me to bury them in some soil.</span><br /></div><br />Then there’s something about christians needing roots like cactus and who knows what it’s all about. I just liked the part about the machete.<br /><br />
US Constitution
