This is a very special posting as this cactus indigenous to Arizona and the Sonaora desert blooms only once a year for one night. As I was leaving Viva Mexico tonight with a young man I’d brought there to consult with Agustin–a very emotional event for us both, Tia Lupita, Agustin’s aunt, came running out of the restaurant and up the block after us. She put two of these blooms in my hand, telling me to put them in the refrigerator tonight and tomorrow night they would bloom fully. They are so gorgeous now that I can’t imagine their improving overnight, but I have minded her, after taking these photos.
I have been waiting my whole life to see this flower which I have read about so often and it means so much to me that she sought to give them to me. How I love Mexico and the people in it! The bloom as pictured is about 6 inches across. Click on any photo to see all, enlarged, as a slide series.
Coincidentally, Cee also published a photo of an incredible cactus bloom. See her flower HERE.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
What a delight! Not only her generosity and loving gesture, but your appreciation of it as well. That is a bonus for sure!
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I know. My heart is still full to bursting with it. It is the second time in my life that this has happened to me and I’ve never forgotten the first time either. I was walking alone down the middle of the dirt street in Bali when a little girl came running out of a store and place something in my hand and ran away. My hand closed over it and when I opened my hand, it was full of flower petals. I have never forgotten it. It was a perfect metaphor for my month in Bali in 1973.
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You bring good fortune where ever you are! That’s a rarity!
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What a wonderful thing to say. I hope that is true part of the time. I’m sure it isn’t always, but I wish it were.
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I’m sure it must be, you have a great open caring heart, it must be evident to others you engage because they wouldn’t offer you something so precious to you otherwise.
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You have a gracious soul that invites specialness. Not many have that. What a treasure!
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Judy. Judy. Judy. Absolutely love the flower pics. You clearly have “the touch”
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Thanks, Garry. They are still abloom in my fridge.
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OMG — you have every lovely flower there! These are beautiful — and very rare! How wonderful that Tia Lupita brought you two from her vine!
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Reblogged this on Serendipity – Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth and commented:
A once in a lifetime look at a plant the blooms at night for just one night! Amazing!
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I feel honored to see it at all. What a great set of pictures. I reblogged it and reposted it all over the place 😀
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Thanks, Marilyn. Glad we shared this experience.
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What a beautiful flower.
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It is so beautiful and so nice of her to give it to you. Thank you for sharing 😊
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You must be very special to Tia Lupita, Judy. What a gorgeous gift she gave you. Regards. Tracy.
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Really gorgeous, a wonderful magic of nature!
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I just can’t believe that as if by magic I finally got to see one. It is still blooming in my fridge.
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