One Night Only!

This is my Orchid Cactus - the most peculiar plant I have ever owned! I grew it from leaf cuttings , the mother plant lived in Residence at my old school, when the old school was in the previous building before we moved to the purpose built campus, with a primary and secondary school, and  our school lost its soul. It was thrown out of Residence into the corridor because it took up too much space, it was offered to me but I didn't have the space for it either! The next time I saw it was in the bins outside school, where i took my cuttings! Roll on a few years and now I have two of the monstrous things! One has taken over the corner of a spare bedroom and the other is taking over my attic bedroom! 
As you can see if you look over to the flickr link (!)  it has the most peculiar growth pattern, flat wavy edged leaves from which more wavy edged leaves sprout, and long stems that just reach for the ceiling! But the flowers! Oh my! They grow from miniscule buds very rapidly then early in the evening one will open, you can actually sit and watch it open its petals, releasing the most heady scent. When several flower at once in the attic I have to sleep elsewhere as it is overpowering! All this unbelievable beauty and intricacy for one night, by the morning it has closed up and drooped. 
I took nothing else but this flower last night, waited till past midnight but when I uploaded them to my horror it showed an hour earlier! I had forgotten to put the spring forward hour on!! So just took a load more with the right time showing! Spent today playing around in Lightroom with them all - a few are here!!!
I could and of course am saying  the similarities of this plant  to blip are rather apt - our blips have a day then are gone, the journal remains but time for a new blip to appear each day! Some blips are like the flower - truly amazing, others have buds of promise, others just form the framework. So this is my 300th blip! Soon to be replaced by another! 

P.S. Thanks to ThingsBeautiful discovered  the dragonflies are in fact damselflies! They are hatching in the tank as found 2 newly hatched ones this am - took the whole day for them to gain colour - at first I thought they were albino damselflies!! That now makes 10!!
P.P.S. If anyone dares to give one a home, I have cuttings I could send you!! Be warned - it will take over eventually! ( But it can be pruned!)