Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear Fruit, Makapu'u, Oahu. Do you suppose these brightly colored fruit have something to do with how the Opuntia cacti received its common name, Prickly Pear?

Beauty Everywhere

Prickly Pear Fruit, Mission Trails Park. I saw these growing along side the road on the way back from a short hike. The concentric rings on the end of the fruit, likely where the multitude of petals on the prickly pear flowers used to attach, fascinated me as they were highlighted by little concentric shadows by the setting sun.