I am soooo happy to have found all of you! I have been using Lin Wellford's books as reference to paint rocks for years now. When I tell people that I paint stones I sometimes get a raised eyebrow. : ) They are fun, profitable to do and look great in the garden. I have the new book but have not had a chance to paint anything from it. Most of the ones I have done are animals. Will post photos when I figure out how! Love, love this forum!

Not so good. One tube? Maybe 20W? Not enough light to do much good. The foliage right at the tip, three inches from the tube, will probably do well, the rest of it, a foot or more from the tube will be too dark. Light that is dimmer than a certain level kills plants. You might not be that dim, but full sun trees aren't going to be happy. Stick to 12-14 hours light each day, 10-12 hours if you get a really intense light source. Get maybe four or six tubes like that and arrange them vertically around the plants. The "arc" in your reflector might need to be more pronouned. Try to arrange it so that it produces an obvious bright strip on a surface a couple of feet away, so you can just light the plants and not the rest of the room. Or get a more intense light source with a really good reflector and mount it a foot or two above the plants. Maybe a couple of 42W CFLs.

Lee... I sent off my e-mail to Maureen before I saw that you'd be interested in the way I do Print Screen. I also used to save and paste into Irfanview until Wolf showed me a little German program he used. It saves you having to paste each time you save a screenshot and it is so easy to then save a series of screenshots one after the other. Here's the letter and explanation I sent to Maureen: I have been using a little German program called "Snapsaver" for an easy print screen function. The icon sits down in my tray at screen bottom and I call it up when I need it. With just two clicks, - one to call up the program and the next one to save the screen - it takes a screen copy and saves it to a predetermined folder where I keep all screenshots, so that eliminates having to cut and paste a screen each time you do a print screen. It will take as many shots as you like, just as long as you press the 'print screen' button, and then after a long pause it turns off until you click the icon to 'wake it up' again. Here is one download site at the link below .....I think all commands are in English but I'll go back and check as I see this page is in German. Usually after taking a screenshot I go to the saved snap in the snaps folder and use my resident default pictureviewer and cropper program (VuePrint) - and crop out any unnecessary edges from the screen capture and resize the page to around 800 x 600, which all together sharpens the image and clarifies any blurry text, then I save the cropped image into one of my photo files. VuePrint is an old program and costs very little I think I paid $40...from Hamrick Software and it is so transparent, yet wonderful as it sits there in the background without being noticed but as soon as I bring up a photo, it will crop and zoom in or out, resize, flip over or mirror image a photo. I think you can still download a test version of that program before paying anything. I just noticed that Hamrick's website is promoting his scanning program (VueScan) but at the top centre there is a link to VuePrint. This is such a neat little program! I'm happy to answer any further questions :-). SharonCb Here is a link that might be useful: Snapsaver Download Site

The photobucket C&P shows as a link. Now, I'm trying the direct copy from my phone's camera roll.