CAN YOU SAY 'KLUTZ'?

First of all, let me just say that its not as bad as it may look.  I took a little spill and fell face first.   I was so busy trying to protect my camera that I couldn't protect my face.  But don't worry, a cactus plant broke my fall! I had to yank my face loose before I could stand up.  I was covered with hundreds of spines.  (if you look closely at the picture you can see some of the bigger ones).  I even had them in my lip!  Fortunately I had worn my glasses instead of my contacts, and my eyes were protected.  Steve and Gabe pulled out as many of the big spines as they could but we had to call it a day so I could go home and pull the rest out.

On the way down the road we passed some turkeys so I jumped out of the truck and took off after them, still covered with cactus and blood.  I was so busy avoiding more cactus that I didn't see the barbed wire!  I'm thinking I may have to go get a tetnus shot, I can't remember when I last had one and the top of my foot is really aching.

Did you know that if your face is covered with hundreds of cactus spines and the wind blows on them from an open window while the vehicle you are in is going 60 mph, that you can feel each and every spine as it wiggles deeper into your flesh, piercing nerve endings and sending jolts of pain to your brain?  I know that now.

I still have cactus in my face, in my hair and eyebrows.  My foot is throgging.  I am covered with mosquito bites.   But the very worst part is that my 70 mm lens was damaged in the fall and no longer focuses properly... my poor baby!  So now I will take my pin-cushion face to bed and hope for the camera-fairy to come by and fix my lens.  Maybe while she's at it she can drop a little fairy dust on foot, and remove the cactus so my pillow doesn't stick to my face anymore.