and Uwe, I want you to know that your marvelous bead pictures and pictures of Morocco were my inspiration for including the flower images.

And my success in taking these pictures is ENTIRELY due to Carl's recommendation of the Kodak EasyShare Z710 camera, which allows really easy hand-held macro work for the non-photography specialist! For the flowers, I had a lot of "duds" with the auto focus focusing in on the wrong thing, but also a good crop of lovely images taken with only a few second of fiddling to compose the shot. Thanks a million Carl! and, I recommend this camera to anyone who likes to take bead pictures. You can get a used one on eBay, but there is competition for these models.

And thank you all for the compliments!