May you have many more fanciful lilium-filled years!
Happy Birthday Leftwood!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday Sherleft!! Wallaby has picked the perfect lily there to celebrate your birthday. Have a good one!
Oh, yes! Have a wonderful day.
This is from last year. Nothing blooming (lilies) here yet.
Happy Birthday, Lefty!
Happy Birthday, Lefty. Hope you did something to make it a special one.
Ideed I did. Went to see someone's garden near Taylor's Falls. A real treat. Among many things, they have a Dogwood Tree (Cornus florida) in bloom! Only the second one I have seen up here, ever!
Happy Belated Birthday Leftwood! Hope you have a great year!
Diann
Oh, me too. A belated Happy Birthday. I thought I was too late, but belated wishes will work.
I hope you had a Happy Birthday & lots of blooming lilies to celebrate it!
Another belated wish. Happy birthday to you.............
...and another one.
a VERY belated wish from me to!
only 56 kb!!!
Thanks so much for the b-day wishes, everyone. Donald Duck and I are doing very well, although he is exactly 25 years older than me.
Boniton, that pic still has great clarity, even with the reduced file size. Another program everyone should have is the add on extension for the Firefox browser, "all-in-one gesture" and/or "image zoom". You can zoom in on posted pics here or anywhere on the web. With all-in-one gesture, a pre-ascribed doodle with your mouse doubles the size of the pic. With image zoom you can choose the multiplication factor of the zoom.
All-in-one gesture is such a cool time saver too. I open new tabs with an up motion of the mouse, reload with an updown, retrieve the last window I closed with a leftupleft, double an image size with an updownupdown, etc.
Still using internet explorer(IE)? It's up to you, but if you want to take the leap to Firefox, I can help, or you can get help from the Computer Talk forum under the Home Talk tab at the top of this screen. You don't need to get rid of IE, and it will still always be available to you with just a click.
Sorry about the digression. I do have to get some Martagon album's. That white is so pure. I have some seedlings started now, but it will be a while.
Yes, Leftwood, that PIXreducer is great, wish I had known this earlier; I always had a big job trying to reduce pictures before sending them and with a bad result on top!
I knew of the existence of firefox, but have been reluctant to try it. I'm not a great computer person; have very poorly developed technical insights and it took me a long time to learn even the most basics. But the advantages you describe are very tempting in opening many more useful possibilities, so I think I'll try it out! Thanks!
Go here to download Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
I believe that during installation it will ask you if you want to import your bookmarks from IE. If you don't, you can still do it later, but it's a bit more fuss. You will probably want to get use to the browser before you put the add ons on, but . . .
On that same mozilla firefox page you can click on "Add ons" to get the ones I mentioned, and hundreds more. But at first, you'll want to use the search engine there to find my special ones, or you could be searching through them for days!
Have fun!
I did download the firefox. I will need some time to get used to it.
I suppose that's a good exercise for my rusty left part of the brain
I'm sure it must open many possibilities; I also downloaded the all-in-one-gesture.
There are now 6 toolbars at the top of my screen!
One element I am missing from IE is the 'favorite sites' button I haven't discovered yet with Firefox.
One of them is the KMI the Belgian weather report station; there is a button called 'weather' but when I click on it it says: "sorry, there is no data available for Faizabad Afghanistan".
Thank goodness I'm not living there!!
I suppose one of those tool bars is the Google tool bar. Notice that the Navigation tool bar (the one with the green or gray arrows) has a Google box on the right. You can use it just as you would a regular Google search. You may decide you don't need the extra Google tool bar.
Click on view at the top of FF, then tool bars, untick every tool bar you don't want. The only one I have ticked is the navigation bar, as I have a relatively small screen, and want the bulk of it for viewing web pages.
I never used favorites in IE, but I think the equivalent in FF is the Bookmarks tool bar. That's the one that automatically has the "Getting Started" and "Latest Headlines" in it. Click view, then tool bars, make sure bookmarks is ticked. Then right click in that tool bar, click new bookmark and add your favorites. You don't need to put in the "http://" in front of the web address, but you can.
To put your weather in, first open IE. (You can run both IE and FF at the same time.) Click your weather button, and when it comes up, left click on the web address shown in the navigation tool bar (the stuff that starts with "http://"). The address will be highlighted. Now right click on the address, a drop down window will appear. Click "Copy". Re open FF, right click in the bookmarks tool bar, then new bookmark, then click in the location box to put the cursor there. Then right click, then click "paste". The web address from IE should now be pasted in the Location box. Don't forget to name your new bookmark. Click "OK". Your weather bookmark should appear in the Bookmarks tool bar.