Wow, despite the huge amounts of rain in the past 24 hours and the crazy wind we’re getting here, the new gardenia has already given me a pretty flower. It started opening up yesterday and this morning it was pretty much in full bloom.

Here are some photos of the little darling.

I’m so surprised at the quality of photos that my point-and-shoot camera can produce! It’s a Canon Ixus 70 with 7.1 megapixels and the usual goodies that decent point-and-shoot cameras have. The macro function is actually quite good, compared to the unusable Sony DSC that we had for 6+ years. Amazing how technology advances so quickly.

The last photo is really pretty when cropped close up. You can really see the detail and texture of the petals. I think I might print it out one day, the quality of the image is definitely good enough to print a 6×4 inch photo at 180 dpi.

There’s quite a few more buds that look like they’re going to pop open in the next day or two. Fingers crossed that they do!