Bestlawn, I have lurked on this forum for several years. I've always been afraid to totally kill the old Fescue lawn and grow Kentucky Bluegrass. But I am finally ready to make the switch. I know the best time to do this is in the fall. But do you think I have any chance of success trying to do this in the spring? I've always read your advice on KBG with great interest. I appreciate your feedback, or anyone else's for that matter.

Les - I store all my pics on my main hard drive and have 2 usb hard drives as backups - one at home connected all the time and one at DW's work - they rotate every month. The usb at home actively backs up any pic, doc,or similar file as added or changed on the computer. I name my pics somewhat like Ken, but since date is stored in file data already I add the year plant was added to garden and count if multiples. So.... pic with name Hosta 'Abba Dabba Do' (2)(06&08)-002 means....(2) quantity of 2....(06&08) for years purchased.... -002 is picasa3 adding an id when file name is duplicated. It's a little more work adding the years info but I'm a little obsessive. I use the following folder system (catalog)- Plants & Trees - one pic of every plant that doesn't have a specific sub-folder below ....Astilbes - one pic of each cultivar ....Bleeding Hearts - one pic of each cultivar ....Demised ....Fauna - bird, bug and critter pics ....Ferns - one pic of each cultivar ....Heuchera - one pic of each cultivar ....Hosta - one pic of each cultivar ........Art - pics I have manipulated ........Diseased and Damaged - HVX, Critter damage ........Flower ........Leaves ........Orders - pics of orders received ........Seedlings ............2009 ............2010 ............2011 ........Sporting ........ZZHosta - picks I didn't take ....Ligularia - one pic of each cultivar ....Lilies - one pic of each cultivar ....Plants and Landscape General - additional pics of all cultivars and some non-labeled general pics ........Deck - General Photos of this garden ........East - ........North - ........South - ........West - ....Primrose ....Shrubs & Trees ....Statues - statues and garden accents ....Trillium ....Winter Garden Tours with sub folders Since all pics are tracked in Picasa3 - I can enter Abba Dabba Do within Picasa and all Abba Dabba Do pics will show no matter whether in Hosta, Leaves, Flower, Plant and Landscape General, .... If I need them sorted by date, I right click and sort by date. More than you asked for, but maybe of interest to someone else. Paul

I personally use imageshack have used it for years, love that there are firefox add ons for it that make it so easy use and upload to. I do have a photobucket account but do not use it near as much. I definitely store my data in more than one location and media you never know when one of these freebie sites might just close down and be gone, I have had that happen too. If you want to do private albums I like winkflash.com. Always read the fine print, many say they can delete your photos if there is not a certain amount of us and some you have to purchase something from them once a year. As just a storage locker online I use Adrive they give you a lot of free space.

Thanks for this. I've seen it referred to on blogs and didn't know what the heck they were talking about. Kathy