The girl in the cat makeup is my daughter. Our family drove up the shore to go hiking on the Superior Hiking Trail. When we got out of the car, I was surprised to see she had drawn a nose and whiskers on herself with a marker.

She is sad because for a moment, my other daughter, the one smiling in the photo, had taken the lead on the trail. My younger daughter said something like, "I s'pose to be in front!" Then she stood there looking sad to prove how sad it made her not to be in front. My son, meanwhile, was standing there, patiently waiting for the girls to start moving again. What I usually do in these situations is take a picture.

I never thought about the Flickr question. Maybe I'll look into that; I have a couple banners that show up.

I knew I had arrived in this world when I finally had a banner published on PDD.  

I would like to see more stories, too.  Maybe I'll go comment on the ones I have there. Maybe other people will go through and do the same.  I have often wondered about various banners.   Do you need a Flickr account or something to do that?

While I'm at it, what's a good way for someone with limited technical knowledge to crop and/or otherwise doctor images for banners?  I'm talking very limited, here.  I mess around but it takes me a long time to figure things out.  We have Photoshop Elements which Mrs. Goose got for a class, and I have Picasa, too.  I mainly use Picasa because I can send my cellcam snapshots there easily and because I'm planning on being proficient by the time that Google (hopefully) brings fiber to Duluth-Superior and all of the "killer" apps they say are coming with it.

For anyone in need:

Probably the best FREE (full version) and most comprehensive image editing software I've come across is Irfanview

Click the What is Irfanview link on the homepage to see a list of it's many features and compatibilities.

Small download size and it's very easy to use as well.
There's also a forum for Q & A.

The worst part is, it's not Mac compatible. *cries*

Can I run it on my TRS80?

I love the PDD banners.