Yes, it gives me a feeling of summer too, and it's a feeling I'd like to hold on to for as long as I can. The background is nicely blurred out here, but yet you've saved enough of it so that the light greens add to the effect you're trying to create with the summer theme. Of course the brilliant orange of the flower helps, along with that wonderfully crisp center. Although I do think that the entire flower is just a bit blurred, but no so much as to detract from your message which I have receved loud and clear.. nice job. :)PJ