Long story short, I got a Night Blooming Cereus with 8 (!) buds ready to pop! Cereusly! An unassuming plant for 364 days of the year, the Cereus has a most intoxicating, heady scent with dinner plate size blossoms that look like they could leave the mother ship to forge their own futures. But, unfortunately they don't. They only survive the one night of blossoming and then hang their heads down, ( I think of it as a Southern plant, since my great aunts had one that they would arrange a mint julep party around each year)
Anyhow, here are a couple of photos... hoping a painting will follow from many drawings done over "the night of the blossom":
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