Eriosyce subgibbosa

Young seedlings of Eriosyce subgibbosa blooming for the first time. The plants are about the size of a ping-pong ball.

Note the very soft lighting on that picture. All the pictures in this blog I take with natural light. California sun is usually pretty harsh and it requires some extra effort form photographer to soften lighting it produces. But today's sky had thin cloud layer, making photo-perfect soft light.