Hi Mastergarder. One thing..you may not want to display your email to everyone that may check out this site..you can change that under your profile page..i.e. show my email address to none. You can still allow other members to send you mail.
To post pictures here, I use photobucket to upload pictures. Once they're uploaded, it's easy to copy them to a new message here. Two spaces up, under your photo, right click copy, then come here and paste.
Somewhere here, there is a tutorial (can anyone help me out?) (possibly posted by Don?)
Anyways..I'm sure that you will find all the answers very shortly..Welcome to wintersowing!

You have to download your photos in a depository such as Flicker or any others.
I use Photobucket. It's free. Then copy the HTML tag below each photo, paste it in your message, preview it, presto!

Upload, sorry

Snap!

There was an excellent post by Don giving step by step instructions with pictures included to help you. That was a couple years ago I believe. Not sure where it went.

WEll Iam not sure I understand to well Wendy2shoes thanks but I only have Kodak program to copy and paste from not sure what flicker, and photo bucket are. and the spot above you called Your photo, I dont see but I know what you mean about copy and paste. I will have to keep trying other ways. I will have to venture out sorry photo for dummies is not avalable for non computer people streatching out here. Thanks anyways Bon, I guess I will deal with old school and when I get a swap I can send a pic. from my emails. Was just trying to figure it out some day. Thanks for trying it's me.yet.

To learn what flickr or photobucket are just google them, then set up an account. From them you can learn how easy it is to share your photos. It's not hard unless you think it will be--attitude counts for a lot. If you expect to find it wasy to learn it will be, if you expect it to be difficult you will give up too fast.

Do IMMEDIATELY go into your GW pages and change the setting that allorws the public to view your email.

Photobucket: http://photobucket.com/

You have to join. Then you choose pictures from your computer and save them to photobucket. You can't post pictures here that are on your home computer - they have to be saved to a website. Once you get a photobucket account opened and put some pictures up, someone can walk you through posting here.
If you click on the picture I am posting below, it will take you to my photobucket page. You can then join and get started!

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Also if you by chance have a yahoo account it will work with Photo Bucket. Once you have an account established they have their own up-loader on their site to upload your photo's from your computer to their site. They have a tutoral explaining their steps. Simple (ONCE YOU DO IT A COUPLE TIMES) From Photo Bucket to here is simply picking the proper code below photo to copy and past here.

I upload pictures to a folder on a friend's web server, and use the same html link to his folder, instead of a photo-hosting website.

Claire over on the New England Gardening forum uses Tinypic. According to her, the advantage of TinyPic.com is that it's very easy to upload one photo and link to it, and you don't have to set up an account. The disadvantage is that you can only upload one photo at a time, which is not useful if you want to show many photos.

Claire's instructions for using Tinypic.com:

1. The photo files on your computer must be in a format such as jpeg or jpg.

2. Using Tiny Pic, you hit the "Choose File" button and it searches your computer desktop.

3. Choose one then select a size ("Resize" button), and then UPLOAD NOW.

4. When the file is uploaded, copy the HTML tag, not the IMG tag.

5. Paste the HTML tag in your post.

Here is a link that might be useful: tinypic.com