The petals of a newly opened cactus flower shimmer in the light of the morning sun in a neighbor's garden. The flower lasts for only a day or two and I was glad I walked by on the very morning it opened and at a time when the sun lit it exquisitely. Nature's ethereal beauty is often fleeting, which makes it all the more precious and worth waiting for. Until next year, I have this photograph to remind me of the perfect moment Nature gifted me with this year.