Well... Now that Spike has sold the site to iVillage, there might be some other unknown-to-us criteria or threshold that the new owners have in order to start up new forums or side-forums from a main one (like a "Conversations", "Gallery", "Exchange", etc). Guess we'll have to see. I'm still amazed at how this site has grown over the years since I started lurking and posting around '98 - '99 and finally joining when the option became available in 2001. Incredible!

Thanks all. Of course more pooches appeared in the photos, but tdog was so inclusive to the forum all those years. ladobe--thanks for adding the 4th butterfly net to the picture collection. At that altitude it should have been easier to swing. mike--I amused myself by considering using the word mugsshot instead of mugshots, above (like cupfuls/cupsful), but it looked too weird. tdogmom--the grid was done in MS Paint & the pix can be cropped out of the originals and pasted in using various photo editors, I use MS Photo Editor that has balancing and sharpening tools. Susan--post a new photo anytime.

Very nice photos! You seem to do much better at getting accurate colors than the photos I take. Your clematis all look quite happy and healthy. You have some great color combos . . . 'Forever Friends' and 'Romantika' are stunning together, and since I have both sitting in pots waiting to be planted, I think that I will use your idea. You asked, "I was surprised how they mainly bloomed on the top parts. Is this typical?" Many of your clematis are type three prune (all those viticellas.) Did you prune them down to one or two buds this winter? These clematis bloom on new wood, so if you don't want all the blossoms near the top, you need to prune them pretty severely. As long as I prune them, I find that most of them bloom fairly much bottom to top. An exception seems to be my various C. texensis crosses like 'Gravetye Beauty' or 'Princess Diana' which seem to have more of the bloom near the top even though they get winter killed to the ground most years and pruned low regardless.

I hate to admit it but Mistiaggie may be right. We've been trying to change it for 2 years without much luck. But I remain hopeful! I don't know if it would help to contact Tamara at GardenWeb but on the Far North forum one of their members posted her email address when they were trying to get their logo changed and it seems to have worked. Maybe that's what it takes. She hasn't answered my email yet but sometimes it takes a while on subjects like this. She was great and responded very quickly though when we had a problem with someone on the forum sending threatening emails to other members. So when you really need her to take action quickly, she does. Kate