I'm still struggling to find the best solution to this picture posting problem I'm having. Everyone's advice has been helpful, but it seems I can do one of two things. I can either size each picture individually, or delete them. I don't have time to size them, and I don't want to delete them. I know I'll figure something out eventually.
For now, I offer this picture-less post of a quote describing household husbandry from my favorite author, Wendell Berry. The last line is especially penetrating.
...they (households in the 30's) practiced household husbandry. They raised gardens, fattened meat hogs, milked cows, kept flocks of chickens and other poultry... These households were places of production, at least some of the times operating at a net economic gain. The idea of "consumption" was alien to them. I am not talking about the practices of exceptional families, but about what was ordinarily done on virtually all farms."
Sanitation and the Small Farm (1971) in, "Bringing it to the Table: On Farm and Food" (Counterpoint, Berkley 2009) This book was a Christmas gift from Belle. Thanks babe!
Spring Garden Acre is a blog about our family's gardening adventures. We call our place Spring Garden Acre, because we live on Spring Road with about an acre. We're located in zone 6b of south central PA. We grow peaches, berries, vegetables and keep a few chickens for eggs and meat.
Sounds like a wonderful book to read.
ReplyDeleteTruly! Berry is not an alarmist or an activist. He's an agrarian farmer who appreciates the hard working local person. I love that about him!
DeleteI started to use shutterfly but then switched to photobucket to host my pictures. On photobucket you can get a direct link so that through blogger you can upload the picture using the direct link. I found that this route worked best. Although yesterday I tried uploading a picture to blogger just to see what would happen and it uploaded! I don't know if in the future it will allow me to keep uploading pictures, but if not I know that the photobucket route will work just as well. It is a an extra step but it wasn't too bad.
ReplyDeleteThanks Vanessa, I'll check photobucket out. If only I could figure out how to manage the photos I've already uploaded.
DeletePhotoshop has a nice little program in it that can resize every photo automatically for you. Not sure about Photoshop Elements. It's called image processor. You just select the photos you want, click image processor, choose the size - I use 150dpi and 1500 pixels width and height and it takes care of it and puts it in a new folder. Then I just upload from the new folder. It saves me a ton of time. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteSorry you are having problems with posting photos. Occassionally my web hosting site gives me fits and it is quite frustrating. Thanks for sharing the quotes.
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