I saw my first firefly in the neighborhood last week, and the first one in my yard this evening.

I spent all day outside, pacing myself and moving to cooler or shadier locations as needed. I have all but about 2 square feet of the new vegetable bed dug, but it was dark enough that I couldn't see what I was doing. I have to hand dig the first time around, it's all Bermuda here and a tiller would turn a new garden into Bermuda-Hell. I worked through dusk, hoping to finish, but you reach a point where it is foolish to try to continue. I'm going to ache tomorrow. . .

I dug a new section of another bed (in a cooler shady area when I worked on it) and we'll see if delphiniums really like partial sun. That's what this is--glaring sun in the morning and mid-day, but none in the afternoon and evening. Also stuck some cosmos in. I've never grown either of these, but seeds are cheap. It's a small bed, near the driveway.

This morning in my email was a message from Photobucket that I can now track back and see who is viewing my photos. This is free even for those of us who don't pay for premium features. I thought "what the heck" and went to the page where I post the photos for my blog. I discovered that there is a link from a site in Indiana that has looked at my photos a lot.

Now I didn't just fall off of the turnip truck, so I let my curiosity lead me to his site. He has lifted one of my blog entries completely and posted it at his site, with no attribution or link back to my blog! But the scum bag is cheap and didn't save my photos to his site to host there, he linked back to my photobucket images that I used on the blog (this way he doesn't use HIS bandwidth. This is considered bad manners in web design circles). I sent him a comment (the only way to reach this guy--prolific poster--clearly none are his) and it hasn't been posted. But I fixed his wagon.

I made a Photoshop jpg with text that states that the content is mine and is under copyright. I saved it a couple of ways on my computer, then I renamed one of the photos in that blog so I could save my copyright message as one of the existing blog photos that he did link to. Get what's going on? Now in the middle of his page of lifted content is my photo, linked like he set it up, but the message is there. This is the guy. I'm new to blogging, but I'm not new to the Internet, to web pages, to links, or to copyright. Let's see if he leaves this up. You have to scroll down to the entry "A House with a Yard" that is currently on his page two. As time passes, it might require going further back to find the page he lifted on May 21, 2009.

SRS