As a marking of a "milestone" for my high school year at my alma mater Punahou in Honolulu, I just finished a series of paintings of night blooming cereus, a spectacular flower of the cactus family which only blooms at night and sometimes only once a year. These incredible plants live on a lava rock wall surrounding the campus, thus the Hawaiian name, panini o kapunahou. One of these paintings will be in the Punahou Carnival Art Gallery in February 2018.