Hey again,
Thank you all for your input yesterday about my desire to stop manually cross posting to LJ. It was really good to hear from you all... I didn't know you were out there! I really appreciate you reading me here.
But still, I cannot justify the time and energy needed for me to manually cross post anymore. And I have spent more hours than I care to mention to try to figure out how to get the cross posting to happen automatically (WITH pictures... that seems to be the problem)
I have set up a syndicated feed of my Earthenwood blog, and it posts my full posts with pictures here on LJ and will show up in your Friends page. Can I ask you to please sign up for it? It will only take a minute!
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/earthenwoodblog/profile The only drawbacks are that I will not receive comments, and I can't see who has subscribed. They are pretty big drawbacks, but I can't think of any other solutions. If anyone out there has any great ideas to fix my dilemma, I would love to hear them, but for now I think I need to go with the syndicated feed presence here. Sorry for any inconvenience!