Broken fragment of poinsettia plant lives on

If I had been told, even ten years ago, that I would soon be able to take this close-up of a small flower with my cell phone camera, even appearing as a reflection in the window while doing that, I wouldn't have believed it.

And if I had been told that I would easily copy the image from the phone onto my computer and then disseminate that information over the internet via a blog that would have been seen by people in 57 countries and 171 cities around the world, I certainly wouldn't have believed that. Amazingly, all that is true.

Perhaps even more amazingly, the fragment I broke off my freshly bought poinsettia plant several weeks ago has survived all this time. It sits on the windowsill in a jar of water -- small but beautiful.