Happy New Year! As hard as it is to believe that 2015 is here already, I'm just going to relax and enjoy it.  I had a pretty decent year last year and expect even better things to happen in the year to come.  Thank you all for helping me to open up and show my artistic side.  Without your support my year wouldn't have been so great.  Anyhow, this is also the time of the year that I hate the most, even though my birthday is coming up quickly, the weather is awful and no matter how long I've lived up here I can't stand it.  It has to be at least 20 below and I made a promise not to complain about the weather anymore so I chose to post a nice summer picture to compensate.  I posted the color version of this picture back in July when I took it, this is the selective color photo I took seconds after the full color one.  I hope to take many more bee and flower pictures in just a few months, until then I may be posting reproductions of past posts or some of my old favorites as I still have a few technological problems to deal with before I can fully access my full photo library.  In the meantime, have a great New Year and I look forward to sharing another year with all of you........................PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!