Friday night, I was on the path from our living room to bedroom, the air was filled with a strong fragrance. Next moment, what I was doing was a flash light on my hands, watching and enjoying broad-leaved epiphyllum flowers.

This type of epiphyllum bear large, strongly fragrant flowers that bloom for a single night only. How could I let the chance of viewing those flowers slip by, I watched and enjoyed the sight of blossom. At that moment, I was happy and pleased by their presence, marveled at mother nature again. It wasn’t my first time see this flower, but the smell and sight swiped through my body and my senses like first time. The feeling was so fresh like no other, it was not the first time, but it was those flowers’ only time.

I took their photo before too, not good. This time was accidentally I used flash light to lit them up, and it worked much better. First I used my mouth hold the flash light, then I hung the flash light on the stem of epiphyllum, or set the flash light between coffee branches. We had rain that day, coffee trees were wet. There was me, ducking under the coffee trees, trying to capture the beauty of the night blooming flower, with the only light source from my small flash light. Smiling, I was pleased with what I was doing, for a moment, I was a very young little girl again.

They are so elegant, like a queen of the flower world, without great force of imposing posture.

Those were flower buds which bloomed last night.