While cereus cactii varieties bear their flowers in the night, most varieties of barrel cactii produce flowers that open to the sun’s rays and close before sundown. They often open for several days in a row before withering.
The Devil’s Tongue Barrel or Crow’s Claw Cactus has pinkish purple or yellow flowers, 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter (2.5 to 3.5 cm). Ferocactus latispinus, as this variety is known, is fairly popular in cultivation because it blooms very early, many young plants will bloom when they reach 4 inches in diameter (10 cm). The cactus that produced this flower is about the size of a basketball, 10 inches in diameter (25 cm).
With the defeat of Cynthia McKinney in the runoff election last night, the electorate has rid Congress of the worst.representative.ever.
The Pacific Trade Center Building in San Pedro, California, is no more. After removing all the glass and asbestos from the abandoned building, a demolition company based in El Monte, California, imploded the old hulk. Nicknamed “The Logicon Building” for a previous tenant – Logicon is now part of Northrop Grumman Information Systems and is currently located in the larger of the two buildings seen at the left in the inset. The old building is the smaller one to the right and is shown as it looked when abandoned for more than a decade before being stripped of the dangerous materials for the implosion. 
