Penny, those are excellent photos! I just visited the gallery to see them. You have beautiful flowers as well! I haven't gotten proficient enough with manual settings and the auto focus doesn't work as well with hummers as it does with other birds.

DtD: The New England gallery is not set up for direct upload, so you still would have to upload at some other hosting site and then link to that. I looked at the Hosta Gallery and at least one photo was on Photobucket (I only checked one to see). If you want to use Garden Web as a hosting site, then you would have to upload to Garden Galleries. Their FAQ is here. I checked one photo and the image location was at Garden Web. You would then link to the Galleries instead of Picasa. I'm still mulling this over. I may try transferring the older "Birds and other mobile features..." threads to the Gallery as a test to see how it works and whether people like that. Hopefully GW won't object to these threads as being somewhat on the fringe of gardening (actually, they are, but the regional forums, IMO, should have more leeway in what they're interested in). The test should show whether transfer is worth the effort. For me, the 'Mobile' threads have been going on long enough that bookkeeping is getting to be a real pain so it may be worth it. I would suggest that pixie_lou hang back and see how this works in practice. She has a good routine set up now that works well. Claire

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Wow Bossy -- you hit the nail on the head. The plant you linked to has a little more wave than mine, but I guess that is something they do under certain conditions, or certain clones. A few of the google photos show that form, but most do not. From the internet: " Agave salmiana 'Green Goblet' is a Yucca Do selection T43-29 that was discovered in Mexico near the Sierra Chiquita Mountains. All of the Agave salmiana var. ferox in this population were blue except this clone, which displayed dark green leaves with a blue dusting at the leaf base. This 4' tall x 8' wide clump has performed extremely well in our climate to the single digits...good winter drainage is important." For anyone not sure how to get to the Texas Gallery click on 'Gallery' on the opening Texas GW page. It looks like this: On-Topic Discussions [Switch to: Exchanges : Gallery : Conversations] Here is a link that might be useful: Texas Gallery ... The wavy A. Salmiana 'green goblet' in in the daisy post ....