Go to Photobucket.com and sign up, it's free. Upload the photos. 'Copy' the HTML code. 'Paste' it in the Message of your post. You will see a code, but when you preview message, you will see your photo's. Christy :)

I think all paid email accounts include ftp (photo/web storage) space. You have a lot more control and no advertising because this is space that you are paying for. Most people pay for ftp space but many don't realize it is available. My email is with sovernet and I have a (long neglected) web site plus lots of stored photos. I have an inner folder entitled 'post' specifically to contain images for posting to forums including this one. This way the url of any photo stored in my ftp space that I intend to post will have the same url except for the image name and file extension on the end. Flickr.com is an excellent photo storage site without all the 'bells and whistles' advertising of photobucket. Photobucket must have some sort of bandwidth limit because if you post too many images or a photo gets too much traffic, the photo will often disappear from the forum where it is posted. As to actually posting a photo from your web site, you could do this, but you would not want to because it would point viewers directly to your computer creating a big security risk. However I believe that Picasa.com encrypts information so that you can share it directly from your computer safely. I could be wrong about this, but I think this is how Picasa works.

I had read numerous posts that people had no idea how to post a picture, so I thought I'd throw this idea out. I'm sure that photobucket isn't all that hard, but you do have to sign up first. I can't say much about the process afterwards because when I went to sign up last night, they were down. Yes, Granny, clicking is not an enlargement with this option, it's an advertisement for tinypic.com. Since it's a free service, that's how they get more promotion. I personally don't like to have to click the picture to see it better, so having it just show up in the thread where I want it is great. I'm not sure you really have to worry about an enlargement of your pictures anyways since you get to choose the size to make your picture (if you want to) right on the first page where you upload it. Anyways, it sure was easy enough. For newbies that have never done anything like it, I just thought it would help them. ~Angela

You can get MINERVA from several Etsy stores. She was one of the first ones I bought. These are photos from last summer. She doesn't fade much. Blooms were a little small, but I think once the plant gets better established they'll be bigger.