Hi Roland and Thanks! Yes, Flickr does send an email when there are comment updates to one's photos, but I believe they are probably batched daily rather than with every update. Your comment jogged my memory ... I had taken another shot of a clump of G.dalenii ... in the same area ... back in 2006. I linked it to my more recent photo. Ken From: Bulborum Botanicum <bulborum@gmail.com> For me it looks like Gladiolus dalenii I wrote it under the picture from Ken but I don't know if you get a message if there is a reply by Flikr They do with Picasa I got an email as soon as Ina react on a picture Roland