Photo taken on Jul 23, 2013

11 days before Max's birth. I cannot bend, squatting/leaning is hard; plus heavy heat of this summer; plus all the bustle with the doctors and maternity hospitals. At breakfast, at lunch and at supper I wish that I could get rid of the responsibility of eating the damned food, just to have no meals for a couple of weeks. In other words, I just had not enough nerves to concentrate and make photos of desired/possible quality of a white flower in a cloudy day in a greenhouse covered with orange colored polyethylene film (I could not go out and make photos outdoors, too: wind knocked down the composition and crumpled delicate petals). Pity, I wish I could make a wallpaper with it. But ok, that's still a luck that it bloomed before August. Ah, by the way, there was also a delicate fragrance!

Name translated from Latin means “looking like sea-urchin, almost naked”. One of English names is after Easter lily = Lilium longiflorum. Native to Bolivia and Paraguay. I bought it half a year ago, somehow forgot that I already have another cactus of the same species. And while the other one is not very happy with my care, this one blooms.

species Easter lily cactus, night-blooming hedge-hogs Echinopsis subdenudatus