If you’ve never seen a Century Plant flower you will need to hurry to Williams Road, across from the public boat launch at Lake Mayers, to see this one. A Century Plant, Agave parryi, looks like a giant sprawling cactus right out of The Little Shop of Horrors Broadway Musical. It only blooms once about every 25 years, not every one hundred years as its name implies. When it does bloom, the stem shoots up like a stalk of asparagus and has a gorgeous array of fan-like flowers on top. Because of the enormous amount of energy it takes to grow so high so fast the flower depletes all the food from the original plant. Then it dies. Jackie Herrington, who saw this one while taking a walk near her house, brought this bloom to my attention. She showed it to those of us at the Precinct 5B Voting Booth on Tuesday. Already some of the blooms are starting to fall off. Here are some of the pictures I took. Hurry, or you will have to wait 25 years to see it again.