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| Finally, I have a computer which is not a total antique (my last one was practically still using Locoscript and WordPerfect) and, more to the point, actually accepts the software for my camera. So......I should be able to post piccies. Of course, I have completely forgotten how to do this and also, haven't things changes a bit at GW too (I recall reading that it was now easier to post photos). Being an idiot, I have about 300 from last summer ( mostly just point, click and hope) and have not been able to see them in any format apart from the minuscule viewscreen on the camera. However, oldest (and new favourite) child has connected the camera to the PC and Mr.Camps and I have been marvelling about our gorgeous (to us) gardens. Especially thrilling since there is absolutely nothing doing in a freezy, snowy english January (except knit, read and eat). The bright green daylily shoots and hopeful bulb foliage is still not much to lift the gardening spirits and seed sowing is being done in the (warmish) kitchen while the greenhouse lies darkly under a snowblanket (how do you manage with Greenhouses, those of you who live in snowy places?) So, if anyone want to chip in (again) with instructions, I will have a go (there are a few photos of our new wood, as well as heaps of allotment ones.....and even a few (blurry) roses. |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Sun, Jan 20, 13 at 20:07
| Yay! We would all love to see more pictures of your garden, and maybe pictures of your new woods? I can tell you how to post ONE picture on GW with a post. You put the picture where you can get at it while the GW screen is open. Then you just type your post as usual. BEFORE you click on "Preview", click on the "Choose File" button above your User Name, which is above your draft post. That will open a window. Drag the picture you want to post into the body of the window, and click "choose file" at the lower right hand corner of it. Then when you go back to your draft post, you will notice a bunch of numbers, etc where it said "Choose File" above your user name. Click on Preview and WAIT - it takes a moment longer than usual. You will see the post and the picture. Proceed as usual. Note - if you change your post at all, the numbers and the picture will disappear, and you will have to choose it again. I'm sure there is a more sophisticated way to do this, but this is how I do it and it works on my computer. Can't wait to see your pictrues! Jackie |
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| The other way to do it -- and may work better if you have MANY images to post -- is to open a Photobucket account. That will give you a link, which you can include in a post. Jeri |
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| And, one more way is to put them on Flickr (www.flickr.com) where you can upload then copy the "share" script and select from three sizes of photos to embed in your post. Like this. Kim Lula, my odd ball, Toy Fox Terror Christmas present, doing her favorite George Burns impression.
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- Posted by daisyincrete 10? (My Page) on Mon, Jan 21, 13 at 3:13
| Suzy. I use Photobucket, which I find very easy, even for me. I am completely inept when it comes to computers. Simply open an account with Photobucket. It is free. Click on upload. Then just choose the photos you want to copy. When you want to put them on Garden Web, you have to choose the HTML code. Have a go. Daisy Troublemaker
Not a troublemaker
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| The Browse button - just below "Post a Follow-Up" there's a line saying "Image file to upload (optional. You click on "Browse" at the end of this line and it dials up the picture library in your computer. All you need to do is click on the photo you want to upload. Its address will appear in the empty space in the "Image file to upload" line. Then you go to preview and send the whole thing. The only drawback (at least for me) is that I can upload only one picture per post, but it's not that important. You can do several posts. Big time trouble maker: |
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| OK then, if it's cats - here is daughter's delinquent cat still uploaded to my handily tatty house. Trying the Wintercat method first -although I have done the photobucket thing now. |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich Nashville (My Page) on Mon, Jan 21, 13 at 10:56
| NAME: PORTIA FAVORITE POSITION: HORIZONTAL |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich none (My Page) on Mon, Jan 21, 13 at 10:58
| OMG she's defying gravity. She is suntanning in this photo. When I previewed it she was facing upwards. ha. |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich Nashville (My Page) on Mon, Jan 21, 13 at 11:00
| She insisted that her face be shown here. Sorry. |
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| Rightio, I guess I have the browse thingy sorted (cheers, Wintercat) although it took ages to do anything whilst I anxiously fretted. I know I have done the photobucket stuff (thingy?....stuff? what's the matter with me?)with quite a lot of hand-holding so I am going to have a go. Please don't die of disappointment - after years of waffling about my allotment, I may have hinted that I knew what I was doing. This is not true - every season starts with whims and fads because I am like a bored and petulant child - wanna, wanna, wanna - this year, sweet peas have rolled round again, while delphs are in the limelight also. Questions such as space, climate, soil, resources etc. are simply ditched as I MUST have a go at this seed or that one. So, it is all a bit of a mess but there is generally always something good to look at. Daisy, I know I have to use HTML but am not sure what to copy from where....or how. Jacqueline, hopefully, this should be the woods |
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- Posted by kittymoonbeam 10 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 21, 13 at 11:32
| Your woods are beautiful! When you described them I thought it would be a crowded dark place, but no it's airy and open. One of my boys who came to stay. He prefers quilts and just washed antique linens. |
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| I use Potobucket if I want to post more than one picture. It works really well for me. Here's my part-time cat Sofia! She's my sister's but Anne spends a lot of time traveling so I''m Sofie's Auntie Sharon who takes care of her. She's just as at home here as she is at her house. |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Mon, Jan 21, 13 at 13:21
| Thanks for the picture of your woods - I agree with Kittymoonbeam - they look nice and open, with lots of light. How wonderful to be able to do what you want there! Meanwhile, here is a pic of my 3 cats expressing their personalities. The calm two are litter-mates, and spend their time being elegant and beautiful and sleeping. The scamp is a rescue from the streets of San Francisco - she is a clown, an athlete, and wakes me up every morning at 6:30 by banging the window shades (ours have metal weight thingies at the bottom of them) until I get up. Jackie |
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| "Questions such as space, climate, soil, resources etc. are simply ditched as I MUST have a go at this seed or that one. " Hey, Campanula, tell me about it! In a day or two, the most recent order from Chiltern Seeds should be arriving in my mailbox: Mirabilis viscosa, Mirabilis elegans, and Oenothera longituba: a fair percentage of the species in these genera turn out to be weedy pests, but I inevitably order any new one that turns up. Iris attica "yellow form": another twiddly dwarf iris species that will germinate erratically over infinite periods of time and have excruciating and exacting environmental requirements which will only potentially be met in the part of the garden already stuffed with kindred souls. Luigi, my 24 lb. cat, will find that this iris makes a perfect mattress. Incarvillea sinensis "Cheron white": I can tell, just by looking at the photos, that this delicate character will never survive the hurly-burly and soils of my garden and will need to be grown in pots. Just what I need, more plants in pots. Salpiglossis sinuata "Little Friends": see above, "more plants in pots", and at least half will turn out to be solid, lurid, deep mustard yellow, but the rest will be the closest thing in the plant world to glorious stained glass windows that I have ever seen. The only reason there are no thyme, satureja, pelargonium, or yucca species on this list is that Chiltern didn't have any that I don't already have or have tried... |
This post was edited by catspa on Mon, Jan 21, 13 at 13:25
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| For Jeri- trying photobucket - mutabilis |
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| Since we're sharing kitty pics, here is my cat, Turtle, with her half-bob tail :)
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| Oh, Suzy, I can't wait for my little rooted cutting of Mutabilis to grow up and look like that! |
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- Posted by sherryocala 9A Florida (My Page) on Tue, Jan 22, 13 at 1:31
| I love all the kitties and the wood and Mutabilis. Ya did good. I'm so excited. I need to go to bed, but I'm sure I won't be able to get to sleep. Your a techie genius, Suzy!! Sherry |
Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation...
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| Here are Giddeon, Amber, Mallory and Solomon (front to back), takig a break after supervising in the garden.
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| And here's Pablo with the latest cat toy: cat games for the ipad. He and Giddeon have both become video junkies.
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| yeah, I have noticed that cats have a thing for all PC related stuff - especially keyboards....and most especially when you are actually trying to type. Naomi's fat lollop lies her whole length along my keyboard (whereupon little hairs float skyward whenever I next post something). Catspa, I had the incarvillea a few years ago - a lovely delicate plant which really does benefit from close observation. Looked good growing with festuca glauca. I have also grown salpiglossis and would suggest planting fairly closely as they have a tendency to flop over - don't feed then either - if you grow them lean, they will remain sturdy. You can sometimes find the single purple (Kew Blue, I think) - a wonderful exotic flower. If you really want to push the boat out for unusual seeds, check out Plant World - fantastic seeds, cheap and reliable. I think they also export to the US. Based in Devon. |
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| We have a cat family of oldies. 2 old fat guys - Timmy and Caz, and 1 old but intense skinny gal, Gabby. I miss the kitty playing, but I don't think these guys, especially Gabby, would take to having a kitten in the house. They all just lay around on the bed all day - especially in the cold weather when we only keep the main few rooms warm. I really miss Ezekiel, who would lay on my laptop whenever I'd try to work from home. And Elvis who meowed behind me everywhere I went. And little Jerry who dragged my socks out of the laundry room and scattered them around the house. I wish our pets lived longer... |
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| Thanks for the tips, Campanula. Plant World lists prices in U.S. dollars on the website I pulled up, so it looks like they will ship to the U.S. (nice to not need to convert pounds to dollars in my head). I already have spotted many, many (heaven help us) interesting prospects, never seen before. Oh well, another order in the offing, without doubt. I agree about Kew Blue, one of those perfect colors that gets along with almost any other color in the garden. I like having pots of it that I can move around to temporarily fix color-squabbles created by planting errors -- just shove the pot between the combatants. It comes true from seed so I never have buy it any more. |
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- Posted by cemeteryrose USDA 9/Sunset 14 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 24, 13 at 2:20
| I've never tired using the image file button so can't resist posting a photo of Donovan. He's a lot older now and spends his time in his heated bed or on a lap, soothing his arthritic hip. His days with us are numbered and we will miss him terribly. Love everybody else's kitties too - Anita |
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| Here is my old cat, Woodbaby, who was found in the woods in November 1996 and named for the colors of sticks and brown leaves. My son ( in picture) found him and brought him home..he was about ten days old, just opening his eyes. Just last year the same son found a tiny black kitten meowing above our car wheel. She is a beautiful small black cat named Charlene and zooms around the house, adding much energy. |
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| Yay, cat pictures! Here's Odin, demonstrating some floor yoga.
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- Posted by the_bustopher 6, MO (My Page) on Sun, Jan 27, 13 at 23:44
| I'll throw one of mine in here. Her majesty, Aurora, who thinks she is the queen of everything, is in her royal transport through the yard.
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Mon, Jan 28, 13 at 9:11
| I love all the cats. Great to see your woods Camp. Here is a photo of my dearest Zazu. |
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| And here's a pic of my kitty, Charliecat. He keeps an eye on the Hahn's macaw in the birdcage. I adopted the kitty from the vet, who takes in litters and adopts them out. He's about 2. |
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Its Caturday! (His name is Pushpaw)  |
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- Posted by harborrose 8a-PNW (My Page) on Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 15:45
| How could I have missed this thread?? Wonderful pictures! Caturday, lol. Here's dear Sam off to see the Queen. Campanula, now that you know HOW TO POST PICTURES, we'll want to see a lot of your new gardening adventures in the woods!
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