Sam and I left at 6AM this morning for the airport to attend a wedding in Cincinnati. In the dark, I noticed an enormous white flower on the cactus and sure enough, it had bloomed. But at night. And, after some research, I learned that the bloom lasts one night! So, out of 44 years, which is around 16,000 nights, we just happened to be up before dawn and I just happened to notice this white glow near the cactus, and we just happened to see this most magnificent flower. Nature is a wondrous, mysterious thing. There must be some insect out there flying only at night that is in perfect symbiosis with this flowers rhythms. My father loved to quote the poet John Keats "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." So true.
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