FYI

[mme_hardy]

 I go insane (more so) every time I try to post pictures to Dreamwidth.   I have therefore set up a Tumblr, which is (surprise) mme-hardy.tumblr.com .   Text will stay here, for the most part.  Over on the Tumblr are pictures of sewing projects, vintage roses, scans of two vintage women's magazines, and scans of a 1950s book of dirty jokes called Over Sexteen.   All the scans are OCRed courtesy of my phone.   (God, I love the future.)

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[ironed_orchid]

The future is pretty great.

One of my subsidiary tumblr accounts is password protected and I use it to host photos I post over here. I generally use img src tags because that's how I learned to insert pictures into lj before they introduced scrapbook, and it works fine here. (I use the html option when posting, not the rich text.)

ETA: Sorry, realised I offered advice which had not been sought. Even in the form of "this is what I do"

[mme_hardy]

It was actually trying to use img tags to get decent layouts that was driving me insane! Do you have hints about that? Tables gave me no joy.

[ironed_orchid]

I generally just stick them behind a cut and do the img src etc. on one line with the description on the line under it. I view all comment pages in site scheme, so being behind a cut means it doesn't interfere with journal/reading page layout, and tumblr gives me a medium size image to work with (500px on longest side), which again, is unlikely to interfere with layouts.

I was trying to get text to wrap around an image on WordPress the other day, and it looked fine in the preview, but every time I hit post it reverted to crappy looking. SO FRUSTRATING.

[pameladean]

Your roses are so beautiful! My rosebushes are thinking that maybe, if nothing else untoward happens, they might start budding a little bit. Leaf buds, I mean.

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[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Living in California continues to shock me. "Old Blush" has a bloom or two even in December. I think we may be about as far apart as two rose-growing climates can be!

We are in a very, very bad drought; I'm tentatively planning to save the warm-up water from morning showers to hand-water the roses.

[pameladean]

When I was in London on a college program in 1974, there were roses blooming in Russell Square on December 10th. I remember just staring and staring at them.

I've been reading about your drought; I am fond of the Bay Area, from visiting when Eric lived there, and hope for some miracle.

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[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

It's bad for us, but it's horrible for the farmers in the Central Valley. Almond trees are flat-out dying and having to be cut down.