I have hired Scotts Lawn Service to handle my lawn. I do the mowing and watering, they do the weed killing, aeration, over seeding, fertilizing, etc.

They come every 6-8 weeks, 8x a year, for $42 a visit. The people have been very nice and informative, for example, any spots that don’t take on the over seeding, they will fill in. The quality of my lawn reflects on their service and they want it top notch.

So my lawn is mostly dead. I decided to chronicle it and instead of using my own plugin BetterHTMLExport, I decided to try out .mac web galleries, simply for the ease of posting photos from my iPhone.

You can see the gallery here and you can even subscribe in iPhoto (though not RSS, which stucks):

Watch my lawn grow

The new photos appear to show up at the beginning, which is fine.

All I need to do is take the photo on the phone, tap the forward button and click Send to Web Gallery. This generates an email which sends the photo to me and to .mac where it is instantly posted!

To subscribe in iPhoto, just click the Subscribe link on the gallery.

This is a very simple, interesting way to chronicle any event. It’s too bad the photos don’t go into an Event in iPhoto automatically

500 photos is a lot, but if you plan on making a web gallery to upload photos from your iPhone with, you should be aware of this limitation.

Eventually it would be nice to be able to create web galleries on the iPhone. This way I can be at an event and think “Damn, I forgot to make a gallery!” create the web gallery, start posting to it and post to my blog about it, all from the phone.

mmmmmmmm!

iPhoto 08 adds Events. Events start out as film rolls as we know from previous iPhoto incarnations. When you import photos you get an Event. You can view the rolls via the photos category, or view the Events via the Events category.

But here is where it gets very, very cool.

I had 5 film rolls for the iPhone launch. Some from me, some from friends. I also had one roll that had photos from three different days on it. I was able to take that last “Event” and choose “Autosplit” from the Events menu. Now I had three Events, each based on time and date taken! This worked fantastic!

But it got better. Next I selected the 5 Events related to the iPhone launch and chose “Merge” from the Events menu. Now I had one nice Event for all of those photos!

This organization of what we used to call Film Rolls is fantastic.

Well done, iPhoto team.