when you go to photobucket right at the top you can select where you want to get the picture from it says as one selection the web choose that option and then just paste it's url into the blank and it will do it's thing. You can do several at a time too, and also right there at the bottom of that box it allows you to pick a size for your picture, say you want to use it for an avatar choose tiny, or to post on a forum so it does not take up as much space you could choose a smaller size. I just made it a habit many years ago not to hotlink, I have my own websites and see it happening and it really just is not a nice thing and you never know when the person will replace that picture with something um not so pretty LOL. Plus now with all the hosting sites it is not necessary. by the way I also use imageshack and it too lets you choose if you want to upload from your pc or the web.

Anything you don't know how to do, just google search for the answers. Just remember when filling out your profile information, don't give out your personal information. I have seen some people say that they don't use their real names, but as far as I know...everyone that I know uses their real names....I don't know a soul that uses some fictitious name. I actually google searched for my name and not a thing came up that was ME on facebook. And if you have your security settings set to where only your friends can see it, then if someone goes to your facebook profile page by searching for your name(within facebook), all they will be able to see is your name and the profile picture you've chosen. On mine, I just use a picture of an animal and not my face...I'm not trying to reconnect with people I've known from the past. Just be careful that your don't accept bogus friends, I used to get that all the time for some reason but I never do anymore.

Gean, thanks. How's your Pacific Northwest garden going? Hello, Suzy! Thanks! About how I planned the garden, I don't think there was anything in my head that you don't have in yours. I wanted to grow all the plants I love that were suited to my conditions (acidophiles were excluded, for example) in a way that was appropriate to the frame: the Italian countryside. The semi-wild style that called for was exactly suited to my own taste in a garden and in garden plants. Those plants were also the kind that do well with minimal intervention on the gardener's part because they're adapted here (though I do continue struggling with Teas, and we have to go out after a big snowfall and shake the snow off the Italian cypresses and pines, native further south of here). In other words, as you say I honored the genus loci. The main novelty was that I needed to scale up, since this garden was many times larger than anything I'd done before. Also I had views to exploit. I put in a good many trees, including a lot of Italian cypresses since they give a lot of height for the space they take up, and planned on bulky volumes of hedges, beds, and pergolas. I wanted the garden to look good from a distance as well as up close and inside it. I drew up plans beforehand showing the major plants: trees, shrub areas, and rose plantings--lots of rose hedges--and the paths, allowing tractor access, and open areas. I planned the garden, not all at once, but in large self-standing chunks, and trying to ensure that nothing I did would stymie any future ideas. I'm pretty happy with it, though since we started with a poor barren field it will be many more years before it develops an adequate skeleton of trees and large shrubs, and it won't look complete until that happens. Faults and all, and it has many, the garden feels right. Garden design is like morality; you don't need quantities of baggage: just a handful of basic principles and you can deal with anything.

caflowerluver: I did not take offence. I merely wanted to mention that most of us today contain a large mix of genes. As far as "fooling around", I have a few in my closet in a joking manner. I have ancestors of whom I can not find a trace of a marriage record, mention in a journal, or any other indication. This doesn't prove they were not married; It only says there are no records to be found. Some of my ancestors were "on the frontier" and official accommodations were scarce. I probably have some common law ancestors as well. Some of my 200 yr old records are not readable and others have been lost in court house disasters. A number of court house records were lost during the Civil War. If a minister of the gospel performs a marriage ceremony, the couple is not "officially" married in the eyes of the law until the marriage papers have been filed at the court house. During pioneer days, the Minister might not get to the court house for 2 weeks to a month after the marriage. I have 2 mariage dates for my grandparents: one is the day of the wedding and the other is the filing date at the court house. if something happened to the Minister before he filed, the record could be lost. Relationships can get messy. I have a great grand uncle who lost his first wife and 2 children. He married again and they had several children and then she died while the last child was very young. Her sister stepped in, married the man, and they had children. In the same community, another man and wife had 4 children of their own and took in 12 orphans at various times. He adopted all the orphans so they took on his surname. That's got to be a mess in the gene pool to straighten out. Another mess: My gggrand father, after his wife died, married the sister of a brother who married his daughter. Oh my!