I like photobucket. Upload your photo directly from your camera or computer. Then copy & paste the html link. You can add text before or after the link. Hit preview message and you will see your photo. Then submit.

We'd be happy to come for virtual dinner-as many of us are on the way home from the virtual party at agnes' place, and it is getting chillier by the minute as I come north-and all those at sea could probably use some warming soup...

yes exactly, right on target AnneCecilia. my email blocks spam well, and i never got any messages at old garden web that made me uncomfortable or anything bad. this is the one thing i dislike most about the change. that and the WHITE!!!! beyond whatever personal preference i might have, it does not facilitate the types of interactions we have...where it is usual to just interact with a stranger briefly, quickly trade some seeds, and then maybe never talk with them again. sure we had friends and some people we repeat traded with, but some good exchanges happened between strangers, without any sense of obligating oneself to more interaction than that. maybe that sounds cold or something, but in the context it worked out well...and i think that even once this settles down...there will be a lot less trading unless that is made possible by being able to email people "cold"...and have a place for that kind of interaction. whim all means we need to be able to email people without following them, otherwise there will be a whole lot less trading.

i saw you posting about what you'll bring to the swap, but you need to send me your email address so that I can give you my address and directions. I've been discouraged from sending my address through Houzz; apparently it's not very secure. Send me your message whenever you're able! Thanks.