{"id":2116,"date":"2013-02-01T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/02\/i-like-trees.html"},"modified":"2013-02-01T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:30:00","slug":"i-like-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/02\/i-like-trees.html","title":{"rendered":"I like trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Don\u2019t get me wrong. \u00a0But does anyone know how to get all these wonderful background pictures\u00a0I see on blogs? \u00a0I mean, some blogs look like they hired Michelangelo to do their backgrounds. \u00a0All\u00a0I could find was some prepacked pictures, like these pretty winter trees. \u00a0And if I can\u2019t figure\u00a0anything\u00a0else out, I\u2019ll look for a\u00a0pretty\u00a0picture of something spring-like when the weather breaks. \u00a0But I\u2019d really rather have something like artwork or pictures along the top and sides and title that gives at least some idea of my interests or basic\u00a0viewpoints\u00a0or something. \u00a0A Church, some old\u00a0illuminated\u00a0manuscripts, something. \u00a0I tried to upload, but it broke the picture up into a bunch of little tiles that looked goofy, as oppose to taking one image and imposing it behind the blog. \u00a0So any ideas from someone who\u2019s more tech\u00a0savvy\u00a0would be appreciated. \u00a0BTW, I also post this because readership is off the scale. \u00a0Even comments are starting to pick up,\u00a0albeit\u00a0from a few who look to be regulars (it\u2019s the quality, not the\u00a0quantity!) 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