Reply #10: Great! If you start a new thread with granite pictures, I'll post some [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

from the quarry at Halibut Point some time tomorrow. I love stone of all sorts, used to fantasize about being a geologist (or a palentologist, or an archeologist, or an astronmer...). What dimensions do you suggest I make the 72dpi images? I've been aiming for something like 12 inches high by 15 inches wide maximum, and most smaller. The file size isn't an issue, since it's just links in the thead and won't slow its loading. I mimize it before the (free) hosting at TinyPic.com by trimming, lowering resolution, and doing a lower-quality JPEG compression (usually not below a setting of 5 out of 10.

Besides, I have LOTS of spring pictures, and that's what I really wanted for this current thread - images to lift the spirits with new life in wild places after the long winter. At this stage, the sense I get from the few plants and insects I see is something like:
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There will be more freezes and maybe more snow before the final thaw.