Blooming only once a year, this cactus down the road from where I live has done its duty.
I took these photos of the sole remaining bloom yesterday. As I drove by today, it had closed up shop. The show is over for 2014.
Beauty is fleeting.
Cactus Flower
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I never thought cactus has such a wonderful flower. It is beautiful. You have some nice clicks here. Keep up the good work.
May Allah bless you and your loved ones. ameen
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Thank you Afsheen. And, as always, thank you for Allah’s blessings.
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I would say, it’d be nice to touch it… looking at the last picture. Then again, it looks so delicate.
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I didn’t want to cause any discoloration to it by touching it, or causing it to change in any way. And the next day it was gone.
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Amazing Angeline!!! Especially photo 2! You know I love flowers especially cactus flowers. This is stunning!
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Thank you so much, Nicole. Cactus flowers are entrancing, and it’s so amazing to me that these fragile things are on a spindly, spiky post!
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Fabulous shots! I wondered if it had a scent too and saw your reply above. Such beauty deserves a fragrance … I’m so glad you captured it for us. That second shot has a Georgia O’Keeffe quality to it!
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Thank you so much, Patricia! Your words made my heart skip a beat.
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How special is that. Once a year it graces the world with its beauty then vanishes leaving us wanting more and waiting
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And wait we must; there is no other way. Funny how I start watching it closely every year around this time to monitor; the rest of the year I drive by and it’s just another cactus.
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Gorgeous shots Angeline!! We had one of these ephemeral beauties on the plantation and the spotting of a bud was always cause for much excitement 🙂
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Thanks, Madhu. I understand about the excitement; that’s just how I feel when I see this cactus by the roadside each year beginning to sprout its blooms.
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How beautiful! I’ll never guess it’s cactus. Love the second one, perfect lighting and beautiful macro shot.
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Thanks, Amy. I don’t think we really think beauty like this when we think of a cactus. The second photo was snapped just as the sun started to break through cloud cover.
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What a gorgeous flower! I didn’t know the cactus bloom was so pretty.
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Thanks Patti; I didn’t know of how beautiful they could be until we moved to the area right down the road from this group of cacti, and I started seeing the blooms every year.
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Beauty can indeed be fleeting… but all the more worth seeing when it is present 🙂
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So true, Sue. We need to be always aware of the beauty around us in every moment.
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Quite. I am a bit into beauty in decay at the moment…just been collecting some dying blooms fro the garden to see what I can create…
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Hope you post photos!
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I plan to, once the desired effect is there!
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lovely flower, Angeline… and beauty is fleeting… sometimes.
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Thanks, Shimon. Maybe I should have said beauty can be fleeting 🙂
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stunning!
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Thank you, Cindy. The cactus flower is incredible in so many ways.
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How lovely.
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Thank you, Vera.
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They are stunning, and the second one radiates with the shadows of the petals.
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Thanks, Sally. The sun was in and out yesterday morning when I was there, and when it suddenly lit the flower up, it took my breath away.
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What a wondrous thing! I love that greeny core with its complicated reproductive organs (I was going to say hermaphrodite, but I’m not sure how this beauty actually works!). 🙂 Seriously, it’s an unusual and dramatic bloom. Does it have a scent as well, Angeline?
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I am blown away by these flowers; I don’t know either how they reproduce (see comment in yestetdays black and white from firebonnet). This flower had no scent.
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