I have been walking my dog in Pease Park for a couple years now and Austin has been revamping the park with new landscape and trail construction. I hadn’t noticed this prickly pair cactus before but its yellow flowers caught my eye. It stood about four feet tall and had only two fully bloomed flowers with several on the way. Prickly pear cacti with their flat pads that look like large leaves are the kind of cacti that pop in my head when I imagine a cactus but I had never seen one with flowers. Apparently, prickly pear cacti can have red, purple, or yellow flowers. I had to snap a picture real quick because my dog was getting just as curious as I was and a little too close.