Your photographs are lovely. I graduated from Mass College of Art, and work as an Art Director, so I can tell you that's a well-qualified opinion!

Make sure you always set your digital camera to the highest resolution mode, so that the photos you love can be used for print and whatever other application you may someday want them for!

Hope you feel better soon, you may have that virus - Norfolk? Norwalk? - that's been going around. I had it a few weeks before Christmas, and was miserable for a day or so, but then it went away, thankfully!