Finding My Way Again..

So, six months ago, after a frustrating attempt at renewing this site, I gave it up for lost.  Reason.. Google didn't want to accept a new debit card, and no one I spoke to at Google seemed to have answers.  But now I've come back to find I'm up and editing again.  Have no idea how or why, but apparently I'm good to June 2017 when It's renewal time again.

It's been so long though that I'll need to relearn how to use this site, and that is what this post will be- trying to figure it out again!  First thing.. how to get pics in here.

Getting a font, text color and backround color leaves a bit to be desired- a thin range of choices, but inserting pics was surprisingly easy- click on "insert image" up in the tool bar.  In the window that came up I clicked on choose files, navigated to my flagged pics in iPhoto, chose three and double clicked on the last one.  Took a minute or two but all three uploaded, and I think in the order I selected them.  Will check that next set.  A nice surprise is that when I highlight the pic here in the blog, it gives me choices for the size (these are extra large) and I can choose whether I want it centered or aligned left or right.  Nice!

So now I put the curser to the left of the photo, and yes the printing sets up down the left side.  Yay!  But what happened to my gold background?  Maybe it doesn't like to share the block with the photo file?

So if I highlight a section then I can change the print and background colors

A fair amount of messing around to get the print and background to match that of previous posts, but:

In the grids 3 over, 2 down for text, lower right corner for background.. seems to match well.  

Now we try it to the right of the photo.  I set the curser alongside the top of the photo on the free space side, click, use return to drop a space and here we are.  I am very pleased so far.

These pics were taken at the Phuket Yacht Club down in southern Thailand a couple of years ago.  The small sailboat to the left is the one my friend Bruce and I sailed around the islands for a week.

I like the sepia tone of the catamaran below but the horizon line needs a little adjusting! 

Wanted to increase the spacing between pics 1 and 2 to two spaces but hitting the return bar lowers the text in this column instead of dropping the middle photo.  So will go with single spacing  between photos, and between paragraphs for now.

Previewing helps a lot to dial things in.

So do we get the backround color back?  Nope!  But the pictures look okay to me.  Great to be able to use the xtra large size to fill the blog space.

I would like to recover that textured, rich chocolate map background I have on my earlier posts but where is it?   Well.. Thought I changed the background to white and the text to another shade but Whoa.. what happened here? Filled in here but up above where I had return spacing no filling??

Okay!  I went up to the top right menu bar and clicked on preview, and it brought me to the original wallpaper with this blog pasted into it.  Unfortunately all the different background colors and print colors carried in too- not pretty!  But now lets try to clean it up!

One bit of bother is that the menu bar is in Thai when I first open my blog page.  Bugs me when this happens without my asking for it.  But will figure it out I'm sure.

So I think that's it for this blog.  Very excited to be up and running again.  Next order of business is to use LightRoom to dial in converting my edited raw files to jpegs, and then finding an efficient way to move the selected photos into my blog.