Fields of blue linseed flowers

This is a view of Tinto hill in South Lanarkshire, Scotland taken in July 2005. Unfortunately the flowering linseed is just passed its best but the photo still gives quite a good impression.

I saw an article on the TV yesterday which kind of explains why these "blue" fields have started to appear around here. It seems that the linseed plant provides raw material in the making of linoleum, an historic Scottish product, which is being revived as an industry to provide floor coverings for hospitals. Someone has finally decided that clean floors made of naturally germ resistent linoleum will go a long way towards combating hospital "super bugs". I mean to say, the British even put carpet in their bathrooms - no wonder they have problems with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)