Oh, He's Big.

Big Cacti got tall.

He was just a little munchkin out there on the deck a few years ago . . . .

But he grew . . .

2013

. . . and he grew . . .

. . . and this summer he really grew.

A couple of weeks ago I got home from work and whoa-ho! Look what I spied . . .

Big Cacti blew out a blossom . . . 

. . . after almost 50 years of Big-Cacti-ness . . . 

. . . and quite a lovely blossom it was, too . . . 

. . . although to be perfectly honest, it smelled badly. In the interest of full disclosure, it, as Mistah would way, stunk royally.

But it was so pretty!

And then just a few days later, I got home from work, was on the deck with Big Cacti, and thunk . . .

Whoopsie!

Yeah, Big Cacti voided her blossom.

Big Cacti don't need no stinkin' blossom.

Big Cacti, though, Big Cacti's up to his ol' tricks, throwing out all that white fluff . . .

White fluff means one thing and one thing only.

New growth, baby.

Big Cacti, how big are you going to get??

We're gonna need a bigger house.