Nope, no picture, just a red X where your 'avatar' should be under your name.
I used a picture on my hard drive and uploaded it, rather than a link to a site like photobucket (avatars may be the only pictures you can upload to ALR ; pictures in posts as illustrations need to be specified as a URL link to a site, like photobucket or flickr). I believe for the upload option to work, the picture has to be sized pretty small, probably 65 pixels by 65 pixels or smaller.
good luck, SCL