First barbecue for 2012 (again)

As promised, here are some pictures from yesterday's barbecue. Not all are of the barbecue itself, but rather are of a few things around the garden as the barbecue was in progress. Still, I hope you will appreciate the pictures! All of them were taken with my main camera.

This is a flower from the magnolia tree we have in our back garden. It has been blossoming for the past couple of weeks or so thanks to the good weather. Not all of its flowers have open yet, so we can expect to see quite a bit more from the tree.

Ah! This is the chicken cooking on the barbecue. I really like the way the optical zoom on my camera enhances the colour of any pictures taken near maximum zoom.

The sausages barbecuing nicely, with Dad turning them over to ensure all sides are cooked properly. Notice how shiny the sausages are?

A group of flowers growing in our garden. I was sat quite a distance away from the flowers, so this is another image taken with optical zoom.

The burgers were the last pieces of food Dad barbecued. This is another optically zoomed image.

This is a ladybug who survived being caught in a spider's web. As Dad did the barbecuing, we watched an interesting sequence of events: the spider catch the ladybug, the spider and ladybug "duel", then the spider returning into the hole where it came from (bear in mind that the spider was three or four times the size of the bug). The ladybug then spent an hour getting itself out of the web, and then it climbed up the wall to the top of the house. We called it "The One That Got Away".