I check my DeviantArt site about once a week, so please accept my apologies for not responding to everyone's messages earlier.  I'd like to respond to each, but I now have 540 new messages.  Yikes.  So, I'm posting this journal message to say thank you to everyone who has sent messages or favorited my work.  I will, over the next few weeks, try to check out all of your sites as well.  I often spend a lot of time browsing different galleries, but not so much writing messages.  In any case, thanks again for all the attention and to whoever nominated me for the DD.