Memo to self: do not use the rich text editor

It turns out that the "rich text editor" automaticaly escapes HTML: so, instead of giving me nice neat tags, so I can link to (for example) exampleusername it translates the < to &lt; and the quote marks to &quot; and then interprets them to show the characters they code for, giving me &lt;user name=&quot;exampleusername&quot;>.

Also, it was a nuisance to enter that, because the HTML editor wants to treat HTML properly, so & lt; is read as < if I don't explicitly code for the ampersand as an entity. (The space before the l added in the interests of clarity at the expense of literalism.) Things like this are why people want a rich text editor, but I want to link to my friends sometimes.

There is probably a way of doing this in rich text, but it's not in the FAQ yet.

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Testing again, using liv 's advice in a comment. OK, so rich text is fine for new stuff, but not if I need to copy/paste from LJ or elsewhere.

Dutchman's britches

cattitude and I are just in from a walk in the park. First we went along the water, our usual path around the soccer field and then uphill toward the north tip of the park. We saw violets and three kinds of tiny purple flowers*, and lots of periwinkles (more once I cleared some of the dead oak leaves out of the way) and a few white flowering shrubs and plenty of yellow daffodils**. We went back downhill and into the woods the other way, because Cattitude wanted to look for Dutchman's breeches, a not-very-common wildflower. They bloom for about ten days in the Spring, and last year we didn't see them at all.

There had been one patch of Dutchman's breeches in Inwood Hill Park, for twenty years or more. In the last year or two, they've spread impressively: more flowers in the area where they used to grow, and spread across a path and significant southward. We both had our cameras, and with any luck we have some pictures of them. If I got any I like, I'll put them here and/or on Flickr.

ETA: I have put a few photos, including one of the Dutchman's breeches, a few other park pictures, and a nice crystal from last weekend's trip to the museum, on Flickr. My userid there is rosvicl.

*we have photos, and if I manage to identify them from that and the web, I will post an update or addendum

**the last few years, New York City has had enough daffodils to suggest a Dutch bulb nursery. I like them.

Dutchman's breeches

cattitude and I are just in from a walk in the park. First we went along the water, our usual path around the soccer field and then uphill toward the north tip of the park. We saw violets and three kinds of tiny purple flowers*, and lots of periwinkles (more once I cleared some of the dead oak leaves out of the way) and a few white flowering shrubs and plenty of yellow daffodils**. We went back downhill and into the woods the other way, because Cattitude wanted to look for Dutchman's breeches, a not-very-common wildflower. They bloom for about ten days in the Spring, and last year we didn't see them at all.

There had been one patch of Dutchman's breeches in Inwood Hill Park, for twenty years or more. In the last year or two, they've spread impressively: more flowers in the area where they used to grow, and spread across a path and significant southward. We both had our cameras, and with any luck we have some pictures of them. If I got any I like, I'll put them here and/or on Flickr.

ETA: I have put a few photos, including one of the Dutchman's breeches, a few other park pictures, and a nice crystal from last weekend's trip to the museum, on Flickr. My userid there is rosvicl.

*we have photos, and if I manage to identify them from that and the web, I will post an update or addendum

**the last few years, New York City has had enough daffodils to suggest a Dutch bulb nursery. I like them.

Dutchman's breeches

cattitude and I are just in from a walk in the park. First we went along the water, our usual path around the soccer field and then uphill toward the north tip of the park. We saw violets and three kinds of tiny purple flowers*, and lots of periwinkles (more once I cleared some of the dead oak leaves out of the way) and a few white flowering shrubs and plenty of yellow daffodils**. We went back downhill and into the woods the other way, because Cattitude wanted to look for Dutchman's breeches, a not-very-common wildflower. They bloom for about ten days in the Spring, and last year we didn't see them at all.

There had been one patch of Dutchman's breeches in Inwood Hill Park, for twenty years or more. In the last year or two, they've spread impressively: more flowers in the area where they used to grow, and spread across a path and significant southward. We both had our cameras, and with any luck we have some pictures of them. If I got any I like, I'll put them here and/or on Flickr.

ETA: I have put a few photos, including one of the Dutchman's breeches, a few other park pictures, and a nice crystal from last weekend's trip to the museum, on Flickr. My userid there is rosvicl.

*we have photos, and if I manage to identify them from that and the web, I will post an update or addendum

**the last few years, New York City has had enough daffodils to suggest a Dutch bulb nursery. I like them.