THANK YOU for looking and commenting everyone. Now that we are having some very unseasonably warm weather the last few days it is easier for me to imagine seeing my flowers again. Nothing is really growing yet but I took a peek under the mulch and saw some very teensy green shoots on some of my semievergreens. The dormants know better than to try any growing just yet. They are still fast asleep. We could get snow right through the end of April but it doesn't seem likely after the weird non-winter we had. Judy, yes I do grow dahlias. You must have missed one of my posts over the summer with all the dahlia photos. I do have to dig them up every fall and store them so it does get to be a hassle. That's why I love lily bulbs...no digging up every year. Do you have to dig yours up or do they stay in the ground where you are? Thanks everyone & enjoy the first day of Spring!!! Celeste

Good Morning, Everyone! Thank you all for the "welcome back". I missed each and every one of you. Stormy here today on this Good Friday. Dark and a bit chilly out. Good weather for gardens though. Glad for the rain though. We've had high temps and high, dry winds this past week and wildfires every day. Nothing close to here, but close enough that I could smell the smoke. My dogs erupted in chorus with every firetruck that passed by over on the highway.(hehehe). I took pictures of the gardens on the 31st. Glad I did, as the hot, dry winds dried out all the pretty yellow Jonquils later that day. Blasted hot winds ruined them before our Easter Sunday family picnic and egg hunt. They were magnificent in chorus with the yellow forsythias, white Bridle's Wreath, and Redbud trees now in full bloom all over the garden. My beloved Jane Magnolia is breathtakingly beautiful this year and smells so wonderful. I planted out some Orange Perfection Phlox yesterday. Tried them last year, but they didn't make it. This rain may ensure these do. I dug around in the bin at the store until I found one, just one package with moist peat inside. Holding it up to to sunlight, I could just make out something possibly alive in that dark green plastic bag. Makes me mad to pay five bucks for dead rootstock. They are not the best looking root stocks I ever saw, but think they will make it. I only need one to survive to establish a nice clump this year for next year's blooms. I also planted a package of purple Liatris and a package of Freesia bulbs for summer blooms. I love the smell of Freesia. Yummy. All the Peonies are up and beginning to make tiny flower buds. Hopefully the red ones and deep magenta ones will bloom this year too. If they do, it will be their first time. Some deer came into the yard this winter and ate the top branches off the one surviving River birch sapling, but it is recovering nicely now. I caged it with a tomato cage and for now they are leaving it alone. They are "camped" up on the hill, hiding in wait for my juicy, delicious roses to start blooming, no doubt. :[ I've been taking the dogs for walks up there every morning and hopefully their pee and poop will make them think twice about coming any closer to the back yard. My English Shepherd could easily take down a whitetail deer. DH said this weekend he would finish stretching field fence around on the inside of the existing barbed wire fencing to keep out critters. That won't keep deer out, but it will keep our dogs in, so we can let them run loose on the property. That will be great. They need the exercise and I need them to do their job protecting the place. They love it, too. Hopefully the raccoons & coyotes will take the hint. Keep Out! Anyhow, so far so good. Gotta go check on my chicks. They poopy up their water really fast and will be ready for breakfast. :) Talk to you guys later. ~Annie

OK, let's try this. I'm guessing that it only works exactly this way if you have a Mac. 1. I move my photo from iPhoto onto my desktop, just drag it over. 2. I go to TinyPic.com, which is in my Favorites menu so I just have to click on it. There are ads and other things -- I just ignore them all. 3. It says "Upload" followed by a thing (like my grasp of computer lingo?) that says "Localized string not found" with a line circling it. I have not the slightest idea what this means. However, I click on that weird sentence. It turns blue! 4. Then a little menu appears which lists all the THINGS on my desktop and one of them is the label of my photo, in this case IMGP1391.JPG. I double-click on that. 5. A tiny little photo with that label next to it appears to the right of "Localized string not found." 6. Several lines (which I ignore) below this, there is a thing that says "Upload Image" with a line circling it. I click on this. The computer takes several seconds to obey my command. I try to be patient. 7. Then up pops a small copy of my photo and the sentence "Image successfully hosted" and three long boxes each full of symbols, letters and numbers and labelled: HTML [IMG] Link which seem to contain basically the same information about my photo in different forms. I don't know what they all are, but that's OK for me right now. I don't know how my car works either, but I can drive it. 8. I select the whole contents of the "HTML" box, go to Edit, and copy it. 9. Then I go to my GardenWeb post and paste this into my text. Then when I click on "Preview Message" there's my huge photo! I let my son read this and indeed he did laugh. I would be amazed if any of you could use this information to post your own photos, but I was so happy to learn this myself that I'm fine with looking like a computer fool in public. If you have a PC instead of a Mac, try going to TinyPic.com anyway and "see if you can figure it out." That's what my kid keeps saying to me! Nancy PS Please let me know how you do with all this!

Diane, I'm so sorry. I really was hoping she was on her way to recovey but it isn't right to suffer either. May she rest in peace. I can't imagine how tough this has been on her family. Life the way we know it can change in an instant. I'm glad your Rachel's friend, she's going to need you.