Blue blood

I went sleeveless due to the heat for the first time this summer (something I can only risk when I know I'm going to be indoors all day) and managed to display an impressive blue tracery of veins underneath the aristocratically pale and translucent skin thus revealed ;-)
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My first poached-egg flower has now come out :-)
Unfortunately I think the ants have transferred their base of operations to the miniature rose pot, where I keep finding the main stem sheathed in earth (presumably from their excavations?) to a height of several inches, with frenetic activity going on around the pot. I daren't empty out the pot to locate and remove the nest for fear of killing off the rose and/or the fragments of the yellow poppy that have reappeared, but on the other hand I'm worried that the ants will end up doing just that :-(