Soft Monkey Tail Cactus...

Thought I'd discovered my weird for the day...
Just going to terminate my internet blitz
and then found this Soft Monkey Tail Cactus...
Apparently, it is usually found growing on or between steep rocks, hanging above a jungle below.
The red flowers only bloom for a few days... https://t.co/MbLYJD94Xy

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 25, 2021

cactus flowers...

My cactus flowers...
like little bells... pic.twitter.com/SGtuDjcO0E

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 16, 2021

rocky and cold times...

even in the rocky
and cold times
there is always
a flower lurking
somewhere #tanka pic.twitter.com/lEQ9knangN

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 26, 2020

transient beauty...

Transient beauty is perhaps the most precious beauty of all...the transient beauty of cacti flowers that only bloom for about 8 hours at night...ephemeral wetlands...You need to be there, at the right time...and wonder...and take a photo...to let the memory last... https://t.co/qydj2JeWKL

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 14, 2020

Found an interesting perfume that interprets one particular cactus flower...
Also known as the Queen of the Night, this fragrance interprets the highly transient night flowering cactus Selenicereus Grandiflorus. Collaborating with the iconic Bertrand Duchaufour, this special scent captures the orchid cactus - native to Central America, only flowering once a year. The blooms open at night and only last a couple of hours, it is incredibly beautiful and is rumoured to powerfully ignite passions, then, by sunrise, the flowers have been spent.

smiling cacti...

the cacti on my verandah seem to be smiling today in the midday sunlight...

magical sunlight
little cacti
polish their greens