Newbie subscriber from Tioga (northcentral), PA...

I've been browsing for a few years now and just subscribed this morning.
When growing up, the four of us kids used to help Mom with our 2 vegetable gardens. We tilled, howed, weeded, and helped process the veggies for her to can & freeze our crops. We often ate a bit as we worked too. She used to make wild strawberry jam and currant jelly. I loved the wild strawberry jam! Picking enough to make a batch was a long process, but a tasty reward.
Mom is gone now and I'm a Grandpa, but I've started a small flower garden. I'm new to growing flowers, but learning as I go. The tilling and weeding is still familiar to me. My 3 year old granddaughter, Brittany Jade loves flowers, much like her Dad and Grandpa. She likes to pick them all and doesn't realize they die after picking so I'm trying to teach her to pick only a few of each variety.
In high school biology class we had to submit a tree leaf collection in the fall and a wildflower collection in the spring, 50 specimens for each collection. I still love to see the wildflowers in the wild!
I used to take photos with a film SLR camera, but it quit working after 20 years of service, so I bought a digital SLR last year. What an experience that has been! Now I take hundreds of photos of Brittany and zillions of other things. I love this very much so this year I bought a second camera and a new macro (closeup) lens.
I haven't been able to find any guidelines for photo sizes other than that it seems that recommended file sizes are roughly 300K in size, but nothing on dimensions. I make wallpapers of 1600 x 1200 size for my dual monitor system and reference my screensaver to them so that I can enjoy them all. I've seen some photos of over 1000 pixels in the longer length so I assume they're OK, but for now am restraining the size to 800 x 600.
I'm looking forward to exploring all the options of this site and taking full advantage of my new subscription. I hope to learn all I can here and maybe pick a few brains from time to time

Thanks,
Ron AKA soulflier

Hello and welcome. lovely flower to.

Thanks, hope, for the welcome and the feedback on the photo!
The flower is a white trillium, a wildflower that grows in a wooded median of the divided highway in southern NY. It appears in early spring and I always look for them. They're gorgeous! As the flowers begin to fade they begin to turn a pale magenta color as you can see in the attached photo.
I've also seen these in a dark wine color in the area of Hammondsport, NY, which coincidentally is part of NY state's Finger Lakes Wine Country region.
I've begun adding photos to the PlantFiles section and hope to learn a lot here.
Happy gardening!

thats good looking forward to photo's. i so wish icould just find some like that to see..

i'm late but hello from upstate new york.

Herbie,

Thanks for the greeting. I'm often late myself... a bad habit. :)
I'm from upstate Pennsylvania, 7 miles south of the New York state border. Was born in Elmira, NY and graduated from Waverly High School many moons ago. Our 40th reunion is coming up in July.

A photo of me and my granddaughter, Brittany, at 2½ in Feb. 2006.

This message was edited Jun 18, 2007 7:04 AM

cute kid. hpe you get a chance to check out the rest of the forums.