Day 8 - In the darkness of the night

I went to the backyard at midnight to check the cactus. And it was blooming! For heavens sake, it was so beautiful and the scent was absolutely something out of this world: very heavy, heady, luxurious and somehow waxy. I found out its name: Night-bloomining cereus. It has bloomed a couple of times before in the past ten years, but this time I have a chance to follow its blooming process from the very start. Amazing thing is that when I looked at the bud and later the flower it seemed to be slightly shaking. Maybe it really was growing in front of my eyes.

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