If you go to the site, you may need to click on YOUR PHOTOS then you will see topics like new, kids, Polk Nature, which is the one you need. Sorry for the added step. If someone knows how to make it a direct click to get there, please feel free to do it for me. Thanks for looking!

JoJo, That's some great photography, in addition to keeping up on the latest nomenclatural changes. Most of those plants I've never heard of - I don't have but two Ascleps (a Fockea and a Raphionacme). Thanks for helping me make a new wish list (and the climate to grow them in, too!).

I took a look at your Etsy page and it looks like you have done the HTML coding perfectly. To confirm that, I copied the visible HTML code from your web site and pasted it below. You can see that it works correctly as a hot link here on GardenWeb: click here for more designs I have had a similar problem on one other web site myself, and found there was a way to get around that. On that site, there was an option to "Disable BBCode"; if it was checked, the hot link didn't work and the HTML code displayed just the way yours does. By unchecking that box, the hot link worked. However, you may not have that option available to you on Etsy when you are editing your page (I just don't know, since I'm not an Etsy member). For some reason the Etsy webmaster may have the site set up so that you can't post "external" hot links. I did look quickly through some other Etsy listings, and those that did have hot links led to galleries within Etsy. I wish I knew more about Etsy to advise you better. But here are my three suggestions: 1) Remove the HTML code and just have the link with a note to the shopper to copy and paste it to look at your Photobucket gallery. 2) Go to the Support Forum within Etsy and post your original question asking if it is possible to do this on the Etsy web site. Or go to the Contact link at the bottom of the Etsy home page and send an inquiry directly to them about this. 3) Figure out how those other folks got galleries uploaded to the Etsy site, and then upload those pictures directly to Etsy. Good luck. Please report back on what ended up as the solution.

I agree with Greendesigns on the color--the darker they are the more maintenance they will require with dust mopping or swiffering. I am guessing with all you have going on, you don't have the time to be swiffering every square inch of flooring twice a day. Going with a medium stain or even clear poly is a more practical option. Handscraped floors are beautiful without a doubt, but as you're finding are very $$$. Going with a #1 common grade vs. a select grade or clear grade hardwoodis a less expensive alternative to handscraped that still gives you plenty of character. On-site finish vs. engineered finish is really a personal preference IMO. With engineered, once it's installed you're ready to go, but if your floors are ever damaged (think dishwasher floods kitchen), you run the risk of not being able to match it to the rest of the hardwoods in the house at a later date, and you are limited on how many times you can refinish the floor. Going with site finished gives you the advantage of unlimited refinishing, ability to match at a later date if need be, but it does require drying time. I think the engineered prefinished floor have come into favor with builders who want it done quick + current homeowners who are upgrading their existing flooring and don't want to deal with the sanding & drying time required with unfinished. When building new, as you are, the sanding & drying time really don't play in as much--the builder has a cleaning crew come in to take care of any sanding dust + most hardwood guys use the dustless sanders now anyway & typically the floor finishing is done last--so while you're working on closing on the house, the floors are being completed & drying). Hope this helps!