Laura, yes you might understand, and I'll be so bold as to attempt an explanation. Certain data is "embedded" in your photos where you can't see it and always stays with the original photo if a digital camera was used. It remains with photos you've manipulated in some way depending on how you save it and depending on the site hosting your photo. I always leave mine in, no particular reason when I post on the web. There is an easy add-on to Firefox to view image exif data, if it is present. Photobucket is being cranky right now, so I can't access it for all of them but some. It was working last night. If you have the add-on, all you do is right click on a photo and choose "view image exif data". Firefox retrieves it from the host server and tells me all sorts of things if it is there. There is also an add-on for IE8. To get it for Safari was more complicated, but there's one for that, too. The main reason I use it is not to snoop but either to try to help people or when I see a photo that I know requires experience and skill, if it is present, I like to know the camera make and model, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, program, metering mode, exposure compensation if used, because it gives me ideas of techniques to try. Even if you don't have the add-on, and even if it doesn't show on the web (most news photos never have it, it gets destroyed for web viewing if you save certain ways), when I open any original photos or photos using "save as" for .jpg of mine in Photoshop, no matter what camera I had at the time, the data is there for me to study and remember what settings I used. It even tells me which lens I used usually but won't tell me that if on the web, just the lens focal length. I bet I made that too complicated, but think it over, and it may start to make sense.

Excellent! Glad to hear that Crassula arborescens is a more thirsty variety. I am slowly planning landscaping part of my yard with succulents. Before I relandscape, I am in the process of trying out individual specimens to see what fares best in my climate. Sounds like Crassula arborescens might be a good landscape candidate. jonaskragebaer - I have to say, I know very little about Denmark. During your wet summers, how hot is it there? My (admittedly limited) trials with succulents show that it isn't the wet alone, but the wet+heat that does them in. Seems like succulents most hate the combination of high humidity combined with nighttime temps not dropping below 80 degrees F.

Firefox or no firefox, the ads are the ads are the ads, and they have to download before the threads will appear. I am getting really good at solitare and can get through all the craig's list sites I like along with a couple Sudokus before the GW threads even show up without some "survey" or ad floating in front of the post finally goes away.

The hawk in Menifee, CA can only be a Cooper's Hawk but it is an oddly-colored one. Something going on with the feathers, such as a heavy molt or missing feathers for some other reason. If you have other photos please post.