You can also use Photobucket.com to post and share your photos. It's a free website and very simple to use. What I like about it is that it will resize the photo for you when you upload it to the website. It may take a little longer than if you'd resize or compress it yourself. It also allows your photo file size a bit bigger than many other website. Once you've uploaded your photo, 3 url/links are given right beneath each photo: "URL Link", "HTML Tag" and "IMG Code" Copy and paste the "HTML Tag" link onto your posting. When you do a Preview Message, you should see the photo on your posting. Here's an example... My new orchid given by a sweet lady who owns a nursery. This is one of the orchid that will thrive Texas heat and weather.

It's been a long night or rather 'morning' and I've been thinking--a lot! And, I realize that many of us (me included) have been linking to the 'Library' by specific page, as in we look up the hosta we want to talk about or display and link it, with the link taking us to a specific alphabetical listing, the 'usual way' which is below our message! I'm thinking that even that may be prohibited and that Bob really wants us to ONLY link to the home-page as in this way: The Hosta Library rather than the way we've been doing it below! Whaaaa! It was SO MUCH FUN to be able to read along in our messages and then be able to 'click' and see the specific hosta being discussed so quickly BUT, if that is not what is desired by Bob, so be it and well it should be respected to be his wishes!! Sniff! If you read this, Bob, is there ANY way, we can have a special 'dispensation',, to be able to quickly get to one of your hostas more directly? Thought I'd ask--JUST IN CASE--it could happen!!! :o/ Here's how I've done it in the past, (maybe wrongly) besides the more recent 'in-message-click': Here is a link that might be useful: It's breakfast time--'H. Bacon and Eggs'

lovetocook where are you posting the pic from - the picture still needs to be "hosted" somewhere on the web - not just on your computer. It needs to have the http://www... as part of its address. The reason you're replacing all of that with stuff that seems very similar is basically to make sure that you don't make any errors in copying it - it's actually easier to copy the entire address than just part of it; because errors are all to common that way. Hope that makes sense.

The reason I first put the pic on my desktop is that unless you do that when you click to upload to tinypic you have to look thru your files to find the pic you want. Easier (for me) to plan ahead, move the pics to the desktop, and load easily from there as that's the first place that opens. Kathleen, they do store the pics you post thru that site - it you click on images you will see lots of pics people have posted. It's one reason I don't like it because I don't know any way of removing them so don't use it for anything personal altho a lot of people do. There's little privacy here once a person has posted pics and as most know GW 'owns' any pics we post. Pics posted from photobucket can be moved which will break the connection and remove the pic from the thread. It's just one way to post pics if a person doesn't want to use Photobucket. BTW I believe all the photo sites make pics public unless one opts for the private setting.