I had a falling out with a female friend. We resonated real well with each other (just as friends, I’m male). She became judgemental and I had to back off.
We haven’t spoken in about 7 months. I need to break the ice slowly in order to start talking again.
I want to send her a text on her birthday with this particular photo, saying happy birthday.
By the picture, wondering how many people will see the message I’m sending.
I think if you remove the olives, it looks like a laurel, and obscures the intended message even more. Adding a dove might disambiguate it a bit more, though.
Uh… I guess I see it. I can pick up on it’s a laurel, but perhaps because people have said that. I feel that straight forward approaches usually are best - ‘I miss our friendship’
I would not expect them to read any special message in the image. These messages can easily be lost. If they ‘get it’ great. Still may not make a difference. If they don’t, well you said Happy Birthday and showed that you would like to open up communication.
Oh, maybe I get it now. Extending an olive branch?
But my motto is “say it with words”. If you want to make sure she gets it, call or write her and say “I’ve missed your friendship, can we try again.” Or something like that.
But if you want her reaction to be “Maybe LiveFree is trying to mend our friendship, but maybe he just thought it was a pretty picture”, this is the tactic for you.
It sounds to me like you want to be friends again, but you are somehow attached to the idea of her making the first move. Lose that and call her already.
Regardless of the content, I’d use an image host like Imgur.com and link directly to the image rather than including all the site’s junk with it. All that junk on TinyPic is too distracting IMO.