Cycles won't render image However, blender render does render the plane image. It's just a picture of trees (and an added sun, pointing at the plane, and I made a two second animation, just to see (I'm like really new, still).
So, I decided to try cycles render, to see if there was any difference in the image (and to see how much longer it takes), and it just renders the plane without the image.
I added an icosphere, just to see and both renders it.

Thanks.
Make sure to have texture created with "Node Editor".  This is the basic node for texturing in Cycles Render.


From 3D View, toggle to Node Editor -- make sure to toggle "Use Nodes"