Night Hummers

This flower is called an English Lily around here. This one had black stamens when the sun was out, then they turned from gray to white at night. My friend noticed the humming birds in the dead of night feeding away on the lilies which seem to glow in the dark and also put out the usual sweet lily aroma. I'm out of the habit of taking my poor beat up little camera everywhere, so I missed a golden opportunity. Of course it's a little iffy to try and photograph something you can't see in the view finder. Point and shoot is the word.
These lilies are not very pretty. They have stiff, ungraceful stems, and the flowers are mounted three to a stem and they don't hang gracefully, they just point left, front and right. They grow in thick clumps and are about four feet tall. I hadn't seen them before because I have never braved the summer here. It has been relatively cool for the month of June, with high temps in the mid nineties instead of around a hundred, but tomorrow will be hotter. I really hate sweating all the time. Right now it is nearly midnite and I have a fan right up to my face. I turned off the swamp cooler to prevent unnecessary combustion of fossil fuels. Probably I should turn off the fan and use a hand one, but then I'd have to keyboard with one finger instead of two.........