Why anyone felt it was necessary to resurrect and add on to an inactive 12 year old thread is a bit strange........but let me just add this comment. Japanese maples produce shallow and extremely sensitive root systems that resent any sort of disturbance. In fact, it is extremely easy to introduce often fatal disease issues by damaging these roots. So whatever one chooses to underplant their JMs with, it should be something that can be left undisturbed and with non-invasive roots. No annuals that require yearly replacement or perennials that will need frequent division. Smaller, non-suckering shrubs are fine but should be planted simultaneous to the maple. Or any low growing, shallow rooted groundcover.

That is my problem. Friend talked me into moving pictures from Photo Bucket to picasa. That would be able to copy and paste them from there also. And I tried posting on BHG form.Pictures too large . And I couldn't resize them.I e can e-mail them and will resize. sad BHG message board is closing after 15 + years May 17th wish I tranfer pictures back to PB.

Hi celianne, You need a free online photo storage album. Photobucket is good. Once you have an account established, in Photobucket, below "Upload Images and Videos" click on the "Browse" tab. You'll get a "File Upload" screen. To the right of the "Look in" box at the top of that screen is a small downward arrow. Use that to navigate to the folder on your computer that stores the photo. (If you'd rather see thumbnails - miniatures of photos- rather than file names: to the far right of the "Look In" box you;ll see several small icons. The last one is the View icon. Click on it, and from the dropdown menu choose "Thumbnail". Now when you're navigating your folders for photos you'll see small Thumbnail images rather than just the photos titles.) When you have the photo located on your computer, double-click on it. The "File Upload" screen will close and you'll be back at your Photobucket page. You should see the name of your photo in the "Upload Images and Videos" box. Below that is the "Upload" tab, click on that. Once your photo is uploaded, you'll see 3 lines below it: URL Link, HTML Tag, and IMG Code. Copy the string of text in the box behind "HTML Tag" and paste it in your post here. If you want to test before posting here, there's a Test Forum here. Almost forgot, photo size. To make sure your photo is not too large for a post on the web, etc., you can resize it either on your computer or in Photobucket. If you opt to resize it on your computer, simply open the photo in your photo edit software, use the Resize command and keep the pixels below 600. Or you can resize it once it's loaded to Photobucket. Click on "Edit" above your photo in Photobucket. At the next page, click on the "Resize" command above your photo. Choose the option (Website, Email..). Think that covers it, hope that helps rather than confuses ;)

Wow!! You have my dream kitchen layout!! Right now I am a GW lurker as I try to find a layout that works for our total kitchen remodel. (As soon as I figure out to how to upload photos I will post b/c people on GW are great with layout.) My kitchen must be the same size as yours and the ONLY thing that keeps me having the same layout as you is that where you have your range I have an opening to my back door/stair well--which I do think can be moved. So I cannot have a U like you have. But otherwise my existing kitchen is the same as yours. We too have a small attached area for dining and the same window above the sink that we would love to keep. Your kitchen is beautiful and inspirational, especially for me who has a small space to work with!!!