Great tips thanks! I'm puter challenged too. I'm wondering, can you add thumbnails like that to emails? Does it depend what email your using? (I use thunderbird) Also, can we save a complete thread here? Seems like the clippings thing just saves one message? And the searches lose pictures when they are old? Love all the pictures(esp the kitty!) Jill

Love your birdhouse! It's an aparment building. that's some barn too. Vickie

idabean is referring to the rural landscape cemetery movement, which came about as cities realized that land was getting scarcer and didn't need to be tied up with, ahem, dead folks. Additionally, the cemeteries of the early 1800s were rather dreary places and didn't inspire one to invest much in your dearly deceased. So - in the attempt to save the land nearest the urban centers for more lucrative endeavors, properties were sought out in the relative hinterlands and efforts made to make them more of a place to go visit and spend time with the loved one departed. Sort of like parks for the passed. Mount Auburn Cemetery actually precedes Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.'s design career. I think it dates to the early 1830s, and Olmsted began at Central Park in NYC in the late 1850s. Still, it is a fine example of working with the topography in laying out the design, and then making it beautiful and beckoning with the plantings and architecture. Back to the question: most all large cities took up this baton, and established their own rural landscape cemeteries. I'm very familiar with the Big Three of the Ohio River valley region. ***Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati OH (700+ acres) ***Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville KY (400+ acres) ***Lexington Cemetery, Lexington KY (150+ acres) These are all fine institutions that have maintained the traditions of their founding, and all have excellent horticultural collections - reaching arboretum status. Don't have the skills to post pics here, but I have many from each of these sites. The Ginkgo biloba at Cave Hill Cemetery is absolutely (and appropriately) other-worldly.

Stephanie, Keep this page open and "Post a follow-up" to practice. Open another browser window (or tab). Open the web page to the thread or forum you want to link. Click on the url (that http://www.blahblah.com) and it will highlight. Right-click to copy. Come back to the window where you are going to post. In the "optional link URL" box in the posting, right-click and paste that URL. Type a name in the "name of the link" box named accordingly. Hit "Preview Message" to test your link. You can right-click on the URL you've linked to "open in a new window" to see if it works. If it works, you're ready to "Submit Message" Hope this helps -- I used to run an IT department, but it's been awhile since I've written technical documentation! Cameron