Olympus makes many good cameras; I like the clarity of the photos yours takes, as well as the color balance.
I'm sorry you don't have VG to shop from in person any longer; that would make me sad, too, if they had been within walking distance.
BTW, I'm glad you posted two different varieties of Aloha. I saw a very upright, good looking Aloha at Home Depot this past weekend, but was surprised by the solid pink blooms - somehow it didn't look quite right to me. That's because I was only familiar with the Kordes, not the Boerner. I think the one at HD was the Boerner (it also said Climbing HT on the tag). It was a very good specimen, but for $35 I'd rather have the Kordes.
For $15 a Wild Blue Yonder with very good cane structure was hard to pass up, and somehow ended up in my cart. When John saw it in the flower bed next to the driveway that evening, still in its plastic pot, he said, "I thought you told me you couldn't fit any more roses in the garden and weren't going to buy any more."
"Um, I didn't," I said. "It's always been there."
"In a plastic pot? Since some previous season?" he said. "Even I know a rose won't live through the winter like that."
Of course, it was all said with a wink and a grin.
