As you’ll know, I’ve been feeling grotty and sorry for myself, having spent a week and a half of my precious holiday feeling too ill to ‘get on with stuff’ so the painting and gardening I promised myself I’d do in my second week off has gone undone and I am, therefore blue as a blue thing so this iris is very symbolic of how I feel.

This evening though has brought about a lightening of heart because I’ve been cyber chatting with a chap who asked me for permission to use one of my pics on his blog. Now to be honest, he asked me a few days ago and because I was feeling ill, I ignored him thinking I’d respond when I felt better and I’d forgotten all about him.

So, he was a persistent chap and he found my website, emailed me and shamed me into a response. I gave him a cautious ‘yes’ when I realised he didn’t want to sell anything on his site but I was still a little concerned – I’ve been asked twice now to provide photos to people and when I’ve probed as to what they want to use them for it’s turned out to be weird religious stuff so I’ve had to say a big fat ‘no’ – I don’t mind ‘spiritual’ but don’t want to associate my work with pure religion of any kind. I have also ‘just said no’ when people have asked me to use a pic of mine free when they want to use it to promote something they will make money from. I kind of think that one is a bit cheeky.

Anyway, he sent me a link to his site and I must say, I was rather thrilled with how he’s used my pic, the site is rather good too and best of all, he’s ‘done the decent thing’ and credited me properly.

So, hop along to http://www.hooverfactory.com see my pic and see Robin’s blog – he’s made my day.

So, I’ve gone from ‘almost blue’ to starting to unfurl my colours!

Apologies for another flower.....though this is certainly better than yesterday's effort.

Last year, I was shown a sign!