Blooming

Our cactus has had no less than thirty blooms ready to open several times in the last few weeks. I have never made it outside to take a picture until tonight when Matt dragged me out of my cozy bed to see it. I love that this cactus blooms but hate that it only blooms at night and the flowers do not live for any length of time. By the time we get up those beautiful flowers will be dead.
Matt did not want to move this cactus from our town house and I made him. I also made him plant it on our front yard when it started to outgrow its pot. In the four years we have been in this house the cactus has grown several new arms and several feet. Now we hold our breath every time the girls walk around it and hope they never fall into it.
Aren't the flowers beautiful? We are so lucky we live in paradise!