I’m glad I already got one good walk in today, because what looks to be a persistent rain has set in.  I wandered over here to see if any comments have been left; not a one yet!

I wonder how I would get photos uploaded to this sight, as much of my main blog is the presentation and discussion of photos I take.

I’ll try it, as I see that there’s an icon for doing so at the top of this editing window.

First Photo Here

Oh, is that slick!  I can actually see the photo in this editing window, just as you can in the finished page!  Let’s stick in another one:

Another Cluster Of Oaks 

 Well, that’s simple enough!  Perhaps I should explain what these photos are.

Often when an oak of any size is felled sprouts will develop from the stump.  Sometimes one sprout becomes dominant and grows into another full-size oak.  In these two cases more than one competing sprout survived, and no single sprout was able to become dominant by hogging all of the light.

The first photo shows a circle of bur oks about six feet wide.  A truly enormous virgin oak once grew there, I’m certain.  About eighty to a hundred years ago that tree was felled and sold.  These sprouts are very slow-growing now and are probably about as large as they will get.

The second photo is a similar situation but only two competing sprouts survived.

An annoying issue with this version of WordPress, which is based on a beta version of 1.6: a new tab is opened up in which the image information is filled out, the URL etc.  When this happens (at least in Firefox) the entire browser window gets really small. I expect this sort of behavior from intrusive pop-up windows but not from WP!

Larry