Sudoku Puzzles

Hello all!! I have decided to blog today's tough puzzle. The link to the page can be found in the far right column, at the top, under "Check out the Sudoku Blog".

Today's puzzle can undoubtedly be solved without using as many steps as I illustrate. However, there are a few possibly useful steps and techniques that I illustrate today.

Hmmmm! Lavender Cacti? Quite pretty, Sue!

5:13 Pretty pervasive purple prickler.

Never seen cacti that colour ... the things you learn ...

Only seen these in a dusty green.

Plenty punny, Plum.

Thanks for sharing the picture. I have never seen a purple cactus. I like cactus. It is hard to kill them when you forget to water them.

maen all! fenced in desert cactus...unusual!

Question is, is it trying to escape or break in?

Interesting shades of purple and yet again something that I have never seen before...the wonders of nature are forever captured again.

-Aimee :)

4:43 Hi to all. I think I'll sit on the fence with that one jeb.

I've never seen a purple cactus either. Beautiful! The fence is probably to discourage theft.

Hmmmm..... I have never seen purple cacti! Is this a natural color?

I used to grow cactus until my small (at the time) grandson tried "petting" a grandfather cactus because it looked soft. It wasn't..... Lots of tweezer time that day!

I believe it's a Santa Rita prickly pear cactus. See: http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Cactaceae/Opuntia_santa-rita.html

3:54, hi everyone.

Argghhhhh suddenly I have that old song from the cowboy movies going through my head ..."Don't fence me in.........."

Grass-hopper.... Did you know that "Don't Fence Me In" was written by Cole Porter?

Nice factoid Heidi. I know other Cacti grow very slowly, the saguaro cacti (the classic tall stick figure w/arm like limbs) takes 70 years before a stub of a limb is present. I bet that purple cacti is 150 yrs old (just a swag). Pretty ol' thang (now I'm talkin like a cowboy... daggumit!).

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