In a recent post Gean pointed to me that if you click on a (flickr) photo posted in the forum, it brings you to the entire photosteam of the poster. If you wanted to keep the stream private, it isn't unless you change permissions. I actually don't mind that my photos can be accessed this way but out of curiosity, I started playing with private and public options and levels of access. I switched from public to private then back again. If you set formerly public pictures to private they cannot be retrieved/viewed again on the forum. This is because a new url is assigned to each pic and it must be substituted for the old ones in your original post. But you no longer have access to the original post into which you pasted the urls on the forum so you can't paste the new ones. You have to make a new post from scratch. I wish that Flickr would have a different method that would allow for non-destructive switching between public and private modes. At the least they could issue a warning before you make a switch.

Thanks Vickie-I'll try that!

I switched too because of how photobucket was mucking up things. I've mostly put pics in 1 main file with a couple of folders for some personal event pics. Hosta pics have name in file so are very searchable. Done nothing with tags. Keep in mind if you move files or change names, the links for posted pics in GW will be broken. Paul

"how do you keep perlite from falling out of the tower when you are filling it up thanking you" This is why I use the foam plugs. The tower on my patio was built up like this... I first washed and trimmed all the roots of the strawberry plants as they came from the nursery. Then put them into the foam plugs and then into all the holes. Then poured the perlite in till it covered all the roots + a few inches. Then poured water in slowly till the whole column was saturated and began running out the bottom. After it quit dripping I poured in the extra again just to make sure all the perlite was saturated well. You want to make sure you do this fast enough if it's warm so that the roots don't dry out. It seemed to have worked ok since all the plants are coming to life. You're welcome! Grizzman it was you who suggested I use a media so if the pump went out my plants wouldn't all die? I thought I would use perlite in a few with drip emitters and misters in a couple to see if any difference...