Graceful serenity

One of my Echinopsis subdenudatum cacti is blooming again.  I have several of these because they're so pretty, and this is the first of many buds that are developing this spring.

I could tell that this flower was going to open overnight, so I put it on my bedside table when I went to bed.



I checked it every time I woke up, and some time between 3:06 and 5:20, it opened!  I blearily registered that it was open at 5:20, but I couldn't wake up enough to take a picture for another hour.



These flowers are so beautiful.  They are huge compared to the size of the plant, and have that amazingly long flower tube.  And they're fragrant, too, a sweet almost jasmine scent.