Really bump!

You could come up here and hear cicadas only for a little bit each summer, but you'd have to endure 6 months of winter. I sometimes dream of how nice it'd be to have warm weather year round, or much longer than we get here, but there's a price to pay for that. A long cold winter is like a reset button, taking care a lot of insect problems, like the cicadas, but more notable to me, the hornets, wasps, and pesky mosquitos.

Nice flower there too by the way. I've never had much luck getting any cacti to flower, so I just like to enjoy pictures of other people's cactus flowers.

Joe

The key is dormancy! Yay we have good weather all year round. Here's some mammilaria bosacana blooms.