Glenda, lots of work, but I too love older homes. This one is really special to us and yes it did call out to us. We can't take credit for much of the renovation as the PO did much of the interior work. However, we picked up where he left off when he moved to another old house (in much better repair). When we purchased it there was not one perennial flower in the yard! Tammy, we have 4 "squeaking" wood screen doors! :-) One on each of the porches on the house. I am lucky in that both DH and I are lovers of old homes. natal, doubt there is anything in store for the pink "blob". Maybe, sometime down the road, we may try to remove it but it will be a very tedious job. We did think of painting just the brick on that side of the house as it is not visible from the road, but decided we did not want to do that. Guess we just consider it part of the character of the old house. My only concern with the new color scheme is that it won't blend as nicely with the garden room colors of pink,blue,red and whites. The new colors are an olive green, yellowish gold and rust, historical colors. With the green being the primary color. oceanna, thank you. miracle? nope, just hard work, if we can do it so can others. I am playing around with the idea of blogging, but not sure if I want to commit to the time involved with doing that, or if anyone would want to read it. I have seen many of your "eye candy" posts and have thoroughly enjoyed them. You are a very caring person to spend the amount of time it must take to share all those beautiful pictures! gramma jan, yes, so far it does look like it is unanimous. That surprises me as I thought for sure some would say it was done, and it was time for me to move on. If I would remove it, it would not be until next year. I will finish the 2009 page for this year. Others with opinions? Any "nay" sayers?

I checked again, but still didn't see any graphics. I'm not familiar with the Yahoo! web hosting service, so can't help much there. Be sure to give the complete url for the graphic file, not just the file name. The problem is that you have the file available on your computer, so your web browser plugs it in, and when you look at the page you see the file. But when I look at it, the graphics aren't on my computer and the browser doesn't know where to find them. So instead of adding "picturefile.jpg" --- add "http://www.photohostingsite.com/hermansaccount/picturefile.jpg". This way others can see it too.

I couldn't really understand what you meant in the above post, but if you want to embed a picture into a post, that's easy! Upload your picture onto an image hosting site such as Photobucket, Flickr, etc. That should be pretty straight forward, and the individual sites will give instructions on how to get your photos uploaded to their site when you sign up. Once your picture has been uploaded, find its web address by right clicking on the image and copying the image location. Some sites may even provide the address in a text box below the photo for your convenience. Let's say, as an example, that the address of the picture you want to post is http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg To embed the picture into a post, use the command img src="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg"> Note that I had to use special characters to get the command above to show up here without turning into a picture, but you can use it as shown (with the correct image location, of course).

1000 Garden Ideas by Stafford Cliff sounds like a great book, certainly one with a unique twist. I have always enjoyed the blog"A Way To Garden" and think you might find it informative and interesting as well. "Garden Design On Line" is an interesting blog that is written by someone familiar with New England and often is the first to post LD news. I have to get back to working on my taxes but this thread will give me something fun to think about in the mean time. More later.