Indeed Barbara: I think they are much like 'Skylands' in that they keep most or all of their color year round - save perhaps a new flush in spring. Some have more color then other, and all of them have different characteristics, good and bad. I know Bob is very hopeful for 3 or 4 of them. Like the rest of the addicts, I can't wait to get one of these future little goldies into the ground near my house. I took over 300 photos yesterday. It was a rare nice winter day here in the PNW and I was able to steal away most of the day to go wandering. I'll share a few more here that on second glance I really like: Pinus contorta 'Frisian Gold' - a very unique gold/green hue. Choice. Picea engalmanniana 'Blue Angel'. Think I remember the name right. Bob said he was going to propogate this one again soon. Picea pungens 'Donna's Rainbow' Picea omorika 'Peve Tijn' - In my top 5 list. Numerous desirable traits. Abies procera 'Pesek' Stock photos still coming, it's a pretty nice day here so I have to get to work.

it could be flashblock, ad block, or spywareblaster or any type of tool or program you have on your pc that blacklists sites automatically and you are seeing the list of them. It would depend on which you have and which he does not have. If you don't both have spywareblaster I would definitely add that to both, you just have to open it once a week hit the update button then the enable all protection button so it's shield is green and that is it, it just sits there and helps keep the bad guys away. SpywareBlaster

I would try first clearing your cache in IE and firefox, then try firefox in it's safe mode, go to start, all programs, mozilla firefox> safemode. That will run it with out any of the add ons or extras to see if something there is interfering. You can choose to run IE with out add ons also. Then just to rule out malware I would do a malwarebytes scan, update it and then run FULL scan. How to download and install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware application for Windows computers You should keep this as part of your protection and update and run it weekly it is a much better program than ad-aware and is one more layer and it is free. I would also run an online scan FREE Online Virus Scan

The Dell site shows your computer with 512 megs of RAM, perhaps that is an issue. Part of that, perhaps as much as 128 megs is used by the onboard graphics card How often to you reboot the computer? Perhaps a couple of your games are not closing properly and retaining some of the memory. Have you upgraded to Service Pack 3 for XP? Have you ever visited the Dell site linked below for newer drivers for this computer? If you have never done it before it might be worth saving all your personal data and programs and returning the computer to factory defaults with the Dell recovery program you got with the computer. Remember this is a drastic step and it may take you a few days to get everything back to your liking. The basic computer will work better but you then need all the updates. SP3 would need to be downloaded and installed and there have now been over 100 updates and patches since SP3 arrived on the scene. Here is a link that might be useful: Dell driver download site