Nice. Sympathetic. Interesting scenery. Unfortunately, it lacks a lot in terms of composition (too many little, distracting details in the background, and that background not being blurred enough)...
Yes, I too think the Jeff is fine as it is. I only thought you could have taken the "reverse photo" and have a sort of "flowers-in-focus+blurred building vs blurred flowers+building-in-focus" tandem...:)
Kind of: