This image tonight is just something that I came up with, as my meanderings online lately have just about driven me around the bend, as they say. So, I spent a few minutes playing with this rose that I had photographed last Summer. It helps me make the world go away for a while. It has occurred to me that maybe the reason that I turn a lot of my images into something a bit unreal, is that nothing seems real anymore, so if I must deal with the unreal, then maybe I will call the shot on what some of the ordinary things of life might be transformed into. It helps to keep me in a positive frame of mind these days....but then again, it may suggest other things that are better left to the gods of time to sort out. It is what it is, and I am happy with that...Cheers!