Ever See a Tumbleweed?

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

This week's Spring winds have them blowing everywhere, spreading their seeds. Here a sharp close-up view of a small one. You can easily see the thorns that make them treacherous to handle but allow them to stick together and form a mass that can block roads and imprison people in their homes. They are a scourge on the Southwest.

New Mexico☀️Land Of Enchantment

JYWilliams · ‎03-10-2010

Yikes

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

In Realto, Ca they have both. I've only seen them rolling around in the "undeveloped" desert areas. Not in the neighborhoods.

I told my nephew, they act like they're scared to roll across the street.

I loved waking up in the mornings watching the tumbleweeds as my bedroom window faced the desert.

"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

meem120 · ‎03-09-2010

WOW!I. I thought they were just a bunch of fluff. I had no idea about the thorns. Ouch!

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

I would not like those at all!
They look like barbed wire!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

catter70 · ‎10-11-2017

Ouch.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

OUCHIE MAMA,

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

Lynnscats · ‎02-16-2026

My dad was stationed in El Paso and also in Lawton OK, we saw a lot of tumbleweeds, they really freaked me out when I first saw them....I was 5 or 6...

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